I don’t know who needs to hear this but every single time Lenin talked about participating in elections, he was not talking about Democrats.

Equating a left party, any left party, to the United States Democrats is uhhhhh not really anywhere close to reality. That’s imperialist brain worms.

Yes this includes your Bernies Sander and any of these other basic ass European liberals

Just because european style liberalism is technically “farther left” than mainstream American politics does not mean that it’s “left” at all and definitely doesn’t mean it’s useful for socialists. Everyone else being an outright fascist doesn’t make a normal capitalist “left”