The implicit threat by demonstrating a significant portion of the voting base as adhering to your ideas is, itself, a threat.
Bernie's performance in the primary was enough of a demonstration. The DNC's obstinacy can't be spun as ignorance after the lengths they went to to keep Bernie down (and, you know, primary results). The point has been demonstrated and they don't fucking care; make of that what you will.
Meanwhile, progressives very often, as demonstrated on here, regularly say "The Dems haven't done what we want, don't vote Democrat!"
What's happening on Lemmy is a bunch of basement dwellers (including yours truly) yelling at each other. Nobody with any real amount of reach is saying this; that's why Uncommitted (even though they didn't even say "don't vote for Harris") was such a big deal and why so many progressives fucking hated it. I remember in 2024 that for every one person even remotely critical of Biden or Harris there would be nine people calling them everything from undercover MAGA to a Russian troll to a useful idiot and downvoted to hell. The anti-leftist crusades still haven't ended, despite left-leaning voters having overwhelmingly voted for Harris and most non-voters by far being moderates. I'm not passing judgement on either position as that's irrelevant to the argument being made, but while there's a loud anti-Democrat minority, reality has clearly and repeatedly demonstrated how the majority of progressives feel about this.