I think the problem with American liberals (seeing from afar) is that they are “liberals”, which is a confusing label because it puts together the liberals proper and the left. The problem with the Democratic party is that they are too ingrained with the status quo to really change it (its leaders at least), but their discourse is often times that of someone who brings change. But they are not social-democrats in the European sense, so this discourse is half-hearted, as only a part of the party really plans on putting it forward. The democrats are a centrist party with a half-hearted social-democrat discourse as a reaction to the right-wing Republican narrative, but that when in power acts almost like a central-right government: that is their problem. Americans seem to need more political options, because the ones they currently have are too homogenizing, and while the Republican party seems dominated by its extremes, the Democratic Party seem to be dominated by its center(-right) wing….