Comment by Arodex

>but a rapidly increasing number of "independents" in America are strongly left leaning but feel that the Democratic party has abandoned them.

Then they are listening to the Right. Biden did what he could to help unions and eliminate student debt.

The truth is those "left" leaning want socialism, but only for them, and not brown people. Socialism but only for their in-group. (That's also what you see with recent immigrants voting for Trump against even more recent immigrants. "Leopards eating faces party won't eat my face, etc.)