Our most activated and reliable voting block believes it's time to move on from Bernie

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229. Of course he did - PUBLICLY. I said privately.

How about the ACA as dramatic illustration of the differences between FDR and the radical leaders of both these and those days, Whatthehell?

Because the current radical leaders' reactions to the passing of national health insurance by "establishment" Democrats are classic examples of radical/extremist behavior. I'm sure a bunch of graduate students have done theses on various aspects.

But, short of going and finding one of their papers and reading it, maybe just note the parallels between today's hostility toward and attempts to repeal the ACA and the behaviors of their earlier counterparts toward the New Deal. Those wanted to repeal and replace the New Deal in its entirety also.

Now, sensible people would say the ACA's a damned good start and -- amazingly! -- Republicans have not been able to destroy it (in spite of many huge hacks at it premiums haven't risen this year but insurance company participation has!), so why not build on what we have, as we always intended, including adding that single-payer option that Senator Lieberman blocked?

The difference between that sensible option and a Sanders-type determination that to the whole ACA MUST be trashed and replaced with something untried but with the same goals profoundly illustrates the difference between mainstream and radical thinking.

And it's the reason I'd be hesitant to vote for Sanders -- or any radical who replaced him -- to run an animal shelter, much less the entire nation. I want sensible. I want FDR's team. I especially want his magnificent Frances Perkins, which is why I like Elizabeth Warren -- ambitiously "mainstream-radical" goals, but without radical personality dysfunction.

Because I want achievement. I want progress.