The latest rallies for the Democratic nomination have a fundamental role on the party's ideology. Some candidates offer a centrist approach, while others offer a more liberal socialist one. In a country where ideological campaings during the cold war referred to socialism as bad as communism, socialism is not as well received as it could. Decades of propaganda on the people are harder to wash off. As an example, those who give the most support for Sanders or Warren are generally young voters, up to their mid thirties. The campaign has been rampantly focused on defeating Trump, and the approach to do so, is to attract people who voted for the Republican party on 2016. Wouldn't it be easier to win the elections by nominating a centrist candidate, as the likes of Buttigieg?
A leading Sanders in the New Hampshire's primaries begins to take over the leftist approach of the party, dominating over Warren. At the current state, it might be pretty difficult for Warren's campaign to catch up, even though Warren's plans are more concrete and viable than Sander's, whose plans are sometimes delirious. Still, a socialist nomination would have an upstanding effect on the future of US politics.
Nevertheless, Americans won't choose a left candidate because most voters demonize socialism. America seems to be still wary of a possible female president. With Biden down, room is made for other centrist candidates like Bloomberg or Buttigieg. But with Buttigieg's leanings under the spotlight, Bloomberg remains as the one with the most chances to withstand and win over Trump.
If America ever leans to socialism, it would require enough time for a generational change, of people raised out of the claws of the Cold War's indoctrination, to substitute the current one and make a way for themselves.
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