Why are most Democrats in the Atlas forum community staunch progressives?

[Antonio the Sixth]

There is quite a sharp divide among Democrats here between the Berniecrat/populist faction and the upper-middle-class techno-liberal one. But yeah, it is mostly within the left.

[Antonio the Sixth]

You're ignoring Me, SouthernGothic, Smilo, Frodo, Nathan, dar (?), and Tony (?), most of whom are moderates/populists with social scores of under -3.

I wouldn't call myself a "moderate" by any stretch (I don't object to "populist" per se, but only because it's a fundamentally meaningless term). In fact, I would argue that all my objections to the modern ALATT dogma (including on issues where I'm nominally "on the right", like drugs or prostitution) are from the left.