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In reply to the discussion: So can we get rid of the stupid "progressive vs establishment" false dichotomy now? [View all]JHan
(10,173 posts)Revolutionary talk is exciting and gets the endorphins going but reform is thoroughly boring. You keep complaining about "compromise" as if change happens overnight. Compromise is a fact of life - it happens in your job, in most every mundane human act there's some compromise. So why people have such a difficulty grasping that it's a fact of politics is befuddling.
You don't just have to know where you're going, you have to know HOW to get there. Far too often idealism stands in the way of the *How* thus impeding real reform and action so it doesn't impress me at all.
What impresses me is power and strategies to implement what we want. So I have little time for Ideological and purity language - both of which are ridiculous concepts in the reality of politics. There is not a SINGLE senator, not one, who hasn't triangulated or compromised to accomplish anything. And using "compromise" to cudgel Democrats hurts sincere and committed liberals and further damages the Democratic Party Brand - which helps the GOP.
The madness needs to stop.