There's substantial polling to indicate that the proletariat even in America is, by majority, far more progressive than the Democrats. That doesn't mean they'd spontaneously support the best thing every time, in fact they clearly wouldn't, but that's the point of a vanguard, to take political theory seriously as a field of study and agitate to raise the consciousness of the public beyond where it would fall spontaneously (which, again, is still further than the status quo).

I'll begin treat this "missed a century" shit as though it even merits a response when these fuckers abandon the much older ideology that is liberalism.