"Incremental change" is a Third Way lie.

[BrotherIvan]

107. Amen: Look at the dramatic changes to this nation from the Patriot Act alone.

And all the while, the changes happened while Democrats had power. We hear wails of helplessness yet the minority party was able to run circles around them all. It shows that the "what could we do?" trope is a complete lie.

I am shocked by two things that are coming into clear focus: the first that people are very afraid and the second that Democrats can be just as low information as Republicans. Perhaps those are both by design, but we laugh about people voting against their self interest all the time; yet here we have an entire group crowing about it.

That's how a politician can have the rank hypocrisy to say she is for finance reform and Citizen's United, while she and her husband are actively campaigning for her PAC. As a candidate she is ready to raise the highest war chest in the history of the world and we're supposed to think she's going to turn her back on her donors and help the 99%? When presented with a choice, he is "not a serious candidate" and a "fairytale". And yet, he is pushing all the policies which if separated out from identity politics, most Democrats (with a few corporate-loving exceptions) would choose. It is so odd, I just don't understand it. I think the years of turning oneself into knots to justify Obama acting like a liberal then doing the opposite has primed the pump for more. Hillary is going to try to go with it, but she doesn't have the lack of record and charm to get away with it that Obama had. Fool me once, can't get fooled again.