2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Poll: Let's have a reality check on Bernie's single payer health care plan [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)at all would you say she's not being realistic or that she's trying to instigate progress in the right direction?
I tell you this, straight white man, your bigoted culture has yet to manage to pass an ENDA or Equality Act, legislation offering protection from discrimination in housing and employment for LGBT Americans. Democrats Ed Koch and Bella Abzug first introduced such a bill in 1974. Of course they could not get it through Congress, just as the many other introduced versions have not gotten through the Congress.
But that legislation is the right thing to do. When it eventually passes much credit will go to Koch and Abzug for starting a process early when that process was sure to be extended endlessly by ignorant bigots.
What you seem to suggest is not introducing such bills, not attempting to make progress on difficult things because they might not fly though the Congress first shot out of the gate. That's just a horrible idea. Horrible.