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Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. See the ratchet effect:
https://youtu.be/6LPuKVG1teQ#t=2m03s
That's precisely the way I described it working. The ratchet effect exists because there's never more progressives willing to leave the party, but some do and the remaining progressive voters weaken their own position with compromise.
More progressives leaving the party will freeze the ratchet harder.
We need more progressives in the party and evict the centrists, the same way the Tea Party and Red Hats did on the Republican side.
Leaving the party creates a minority party with zero power, it doesn't convince Democrats to move left, it convinces them they were right to move right.
Primary and remove. That needs to be the goal.
I mean, yeah. The centrists run the Democratic party. They aren't going to relinquish control.
Then you primary them and get them out. That's what the Red Hats are doing.