Orwell on the Dem Party

According to this piece he long ago diagnosed their main problem. And it's one they still refuse to acknowledge, let alone change. He said:

"I am making out a case for the sort of person who is in sympathy with the fundamental aims of Socialism … but who in practice always takes flight when Socialism is mentioned."

He notes that such liberal elites lose the working class because of their sophisticated talking points in "language wholly distant from the language of ordinary citizens."

Granted the fascists have made the term socialism a dirty word in most working class minds. However progressives can still support the values and policies of socialism without using that label. They do however have to stick to those values by not surrendering to their corrupt Party at every turn, as well as frame them in working class terms that appeal to their base. 

Bernie and AOC are good examples of both yet other timid, snot-nosed progressives in government tend to mistakenly see them as extreme left, buying into the fascist frame instead of challenging it. Ironically more like those two are exactly what we need to enact socialist ideals and policies. Progressives might consider listening to Orwell, as his predictions turned out to be rather accurate.