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Sounds a lot like the “both sides are the same” argument with more steps. If people voted left wing then the politicians would go left wing.
Neither the Dems nor the Reps are left. Further, that isn't how electoralism works, parties don't change their position if they recieve mass support, but if they don't, and only up to the extent their donors allow. In the US, this means Capitalists, ergo the Dems will never be a Leftist party.
Dems could become a left wing party if that's where voters wanted them. They would lose their donors, yes, so the reps would become the much better funded party.
But if voters voted for left wing candidates there is nothing the donors or centrist politicians could do about it. It would be a generational project, winning primaries and general elections, but it could be done.
They do want them to be, and Dems proved they'd rather lose an election then let that happen.
Lose an election to who
Voters.
Democratic leadership can schedule events or platform people or even change the rules but voters get to vote at the end of the day. There are more voters than leadership. And if voters didn't vote for centrists in primaries there wouldn't be any centrists in office.