The reason Bernie's dismissal of reparations matters.

[Armstead]

115. Your basic premise is -- as usual -- wrong

Your "political reality" sounds like once again you are stretching to make an argument for your chosen candidate and against the one you don't like.

It's not because reparations are going to pass congress. Obviously they won't. Neither will single payer or free college for everyone. Bernie isn't running as a pragmatic candidate. He's running as a revolution candidate. He's saying look at the world as it should be, and make it that way. And whenever someone points out that politically his proposals are a pipe dream, they get accused of being "anti-hope".

You mistake positive goals with "pipe dreams." So therefore, you contend, Sanders and his supporters should embrace every "unicorn" in the universe because all of his proposals are unicorns. One unicorn is just as good as another.

Bullshit. While recognizing full well that single payer universal coverage would be an uphill slog to accomplish, it is within the realm of possibility. There are many factors that, with a slight change in the calculation over time, could either bring it about or prompt medium steps in that direction.

Reparations is not in the same category, in terms of the level of current or potential public acceptance and realistic possibility. And it is not generally accepted that reparations is the way to achieve the goal it represents, over other alternatives such as investment in inner cities and, yes, opening the door to college for everyone, including disadvantaged minorities.