re: Any of you waking up to the fact that you can't trust ANY Leftist?

There has always been a fair distinction between Democrat and Leftist. The latter is a MARXIST IDEOLOGUE. The former may or may not be. But in 2023, as The Left has taken control of The Party and The Cultural Revolution rages on and Biden is making our children's bathrooms safe for 30-year-old dudes in dresses, and every dissenting voice from within the Democratic Party gets expelled or crushed, it becomes far more difficult to make a distinction. And since rank-and-file Democrats make it all possible, I no longer make much of a distinction. There is a distinction, but it isn't much these days.