The Dems are 99% GOP in Dems clothing now. The old left is very much alive, but not represented at all. Bernie killed that over 4 years ago. Tulsi might give us hope on occasion, but she's got strange connections (as they all do), and she's effectively impotent, as Bernie, Kusinich, Stein, Nader, etc were. Perhaps a decent Libertarian candidate can turn that party from a joke into a contender. And the authentic progressive left has now been divided by greedy posers into absurdity.