It would be nice if the far left, for once, did some introspection.

[PatrickforO]

118. Hmm. Obama did tell us not to let perfect be the enemy of the good.

I suppose if we talked, Dan, you would consider me a member of this 'far left.' I've never felt that way - I just want our taxes to be used for programs that actually benefit us, instead of being siphoned off to corporate profit, either through tax cuts yielding a higher net, or government contracts for all sorts of 'defense' and 'national security' projects that don't really make us any safer and don't really benefit any of us much at all.

But I am a Democrat, not a Green or a Socialist or any other 'far left' party. Why? Because this is a two-party system and the Democrats come closest to my way of thinking.

So, where do I stand? Well, I still feel our party (yes, it is mine, too) made some fundamental mistakes during this election cycle. In spite of the rather virulent denials of this in some quarters on this site, the fact remains that we lost terribly, and to an incompetent, immoral disaster of a man.

You know what I've always said? People don't really care much about ideology. They really don't. if we used our tax monies to pay for Medicare for all Americans, strengthening Social Security and did something positive about the fiduciary responsibility of executives in publicly owned corporations ONLY being to increase value for shareholders, and expanded that responsibility to workers, consumers, communities and the environment, we would be lots better off.

Oh, I know...some of you are reading this and laughing at my idealism. A real unicorn, eh? Still, when we see what is, why can we not imagine and act upon what should be?

To my mind, Dan, we must stop classifying ourselves. This has always been a problem of the socialists - you get on those sites and they insist, downright insist, on ideological purity. But you cannot eat ideological purity. Nor can you use it to your benefit in everyday life. No, as Obama said, we cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

So, let's roll up our sleeves, quit blaming one another, and do great things!