No, they absolutely haven't.
The fuck they haven't!
That is correct, they haven't. Not at all. Not even a little bit.
Dems, as in the DNC and the political body of the Democratic party, have always been and remain now to be a staunchly conservative status-quo party fiscally and ideologically, though I'll grant you that they have veeeeeeerrrry slowly creeped insignificantly left on a handful of pop-cultural issues as relates to human rights.
DNC is just one part, and a relatively minor part at that, of the Democratic Party as a whole.
In the last few years the Democratic Party has replaced many of the moderate congresscritters with outright socialists like AOC, Bush, Omar etc.
How is that not a lurch to the Left?
Well for starters, it's not a lurch to the left because as per usual you have absolutely no idea what the word 'socialist' means, so you're just using it as a noise you grunt to indicate that you don't like something.
You're misusing the term so powerfully that it's completely meaningless. You're not conveying any information or intent when you use the word so utterly without context or relation to its definition. You have completely failed in every meaningful aspect of the very concept of human communication.
Not one single elected official in the U.S. is within mortaring distance of being a socialist, and none of them are particularly close to being democratic socialists either.
AOC is a politely moderate-right politician, Sanders is is probably soft-left of center, and they're about the most extreme cases we have.
Neither of them are leftists by any stretch.
And that lurch even affects the Biden presidency, as he has been dragged to the Left, adopting parts of Bernie's platform as so-called "Biden Agenda". The B3 plan is basically a slightly watered down version of Bernie's $6T spending plan.
oOOooOOooo nnnnnooooo the center-right spending plan has had some minor parts of it filter up, teh horrer.
But the Dems are not "left" relative to *anything* in the world - not to liberal political parties in other countries, not to American politics historically, not the intangible concept of "liberal" or "left" in a metaphysical sense.
They're a soft-right moderate party, and any attempt to classify them as anything else is the most pathetic and insipid act of ideological bumfuckery imaginable.
You only think that because you are very far left yourself. That skews your perspective.
The fact I am the furthest left member of this board is what gives me the needed perspective to see just how right politics are in the U.S.
Everything Biden has done in his time in office, including the BBB stuff, is soft moderate-right answers to modern day problems, doing what conservatives had been doing for the last 200 years up until the late 70s when Republicans went completely batshit insane and stopped governing at all and became a thread on 4chan that is for some reason in control of half of our government.
It's all cautious and reserved band-aids for major problems using as little money as possible in order to mollify the populace so they stop their complaining and go back to working and shitting out kids.
This is what Democrats understand and Republicans don't: throw the proles a small bone to keep them placated and you keep the economic power in the hands of the few where they've always been, and people complain less.
Pry open their mouths and shit in their necks and the teeming masses will eventually start to fight back... this is why there's so much unrest in this country, because Republicans got blinded by their pig-ignorant sister-fucking hillbilly base into thinking they could start saying the quiet part loud and stop even pretending to be a body of elected government officials (as opposed to ghouls trying to enact a religious oligarchy and enriching themselves while reveling in depravation and excess) and nobody would notice or care.
Well news flash, when you create civil unrest and social discord as the basis for your political agenda, sooner or later there are consequences.
Democrats doing the absolute barest possible minimum to kind of sort of clean up the mess Republicans have left is one consequence, and the crime you're always flipping the fuck out about is the other one.