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Yes. Scuba Apr 2016 #1
No. Incrementalism is getting what you can given the circumstances. Gomez163 Apr 2016 #2
It often has a net outcome of treading water. Chan790 Apr 2016 #7
Worse, it's aiming low when you need to be dreaming, leading.... CentralCoaster Apr 2016 #13
Thanks, Chan790. I agree totally. n/t truedelphi Apr 2016 #27
Well, leaving off the last part of your statement passiveporcupine Apr 2016 #68
Agreed. senz Apr 2016 #78
NO. Incrementalism is bowing down and accepting what the authoritarian gives you. rhett o rick Apr 2016 #53
That's right. Bernie would tell congress to take it redstateblues Apr 2016 #77
Bernie works well on both sides of the aisle. senz Apr 2016 #80
That's why so many of his colleagues are supporting him redstateblues Apr 2016 #82
Political clout and working well are two different things. senz Apr 2016 #85
No incrementalism in a delaying tactic Ferd Berfel Apr 2016 #58
Failed policies are regressive. Buzz Clik Apr 2016 #3
Nobody is proposing failed policies. n/t. Ken Burch Apr 2016 #34
Really? Buzz Clik Apr 2016 #35
It was projection. The ACA for example has set back single payer a decade at least. rhett o rick Apr 2016 #57
"Incrementalism" is a coward's method of defending the Status Quo. nt Romulox Apr 2016 #4
"Incrementalism" Is Akin To... DOING NOTHING! NO CHANGE! THAT IS WHAT GOLDMAN "PAYS" HER FOR! CorporatistNation Apr 2016 #22
At least the Republicans have the courage of their convictions. A Rightwing Democrat is a fraud. nt Romulox Apr 2016 #23
... or a creature of your own creation. Buzz Clik Apr 2016 #37
Third Way = rightwing Democrat. senz Apr 2016 #81
precisely beedle Apr 2016 #69
Leadership requires Vision, not pathetic weasel words like "incremental". Jackilope Apr 2016 #5
Incrementalism reminds me of Zeno's paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise. Chan790 Apr 2016 #15
And yet rock Apr 2016 #59
No. Not according to Zeno. Chan790 Apr 2016 #60
Zeno was wrong, that why it's a paradox rock Apr 2016 #63
Mathematicians are not incrementalists. Chan790 Apr 2016 #65
Well, I guess rock Apr 2016 #73
Or doing Third Way things, a little at a time.....sneakier, is all. djean111 Apr 2016 #6
Incrementalism = "Go ask your father". CentralCoaster Apr 2016 #8
I don't know how anyone expects Hillary... TCJ70 Apr 2016 #9
I don't expect Hillary to do anything except capitulate to Republicans. Chan790 Apr 2016 #17
She agrees with them on their foreign policies and their economic policies. She agrees rhett o rick Apr 2016 #56
political moonwalking Fairgo Apr 2016 #10
NO. Demanding everything now, and getting NOTHING is a symbolic gesture. NT Adrahil Apr 2016 #11
Demanding nothing now and getting even less is a Clintonian gesture. n/t Chan790 Apr 2016 #19
That is not Clinton's approach and you know it. Buzz Clik Apr 2016 #41
Oh Please beedle Apr 2016 #70
Thank you for the campaign attack ad. Buzz Clik Apr 2016 #71
If Hillary is that vulnerable beedle Apr 2016 #72
The only way to get something is to start by demanding everything. Ken Burch Apr 2016 #38
Tea Party logic. How is that working out so far? Buzz Clik Apr 2016 #43
It worked very well for them. Ken Burch Apr 2016 #47
Nothin was passed. The Tea Party is a failure. Buzz Clik Apr 2016 #48
They weren't TRYING to get things passed. They were trying to cut government down to nothing Ken Burch Apr 2016 #62
If your view of their goals is correct, they achieved them by doing nothing. Buzz Clik Apr 2016 #67
Or by working with others to get the votes to do it- like the senate has bettyellen Apr 2016 #66
You are in a leaky boat and the water is pooling in the bottom. You are beginning to sink. Beowulf Apr 2016 #12
Nonsense. An idiot would use a teaspoon. Buzz Clik Apr 2016 #45
Yes. And when Bernie wins, I fully expect them to try to put a "governor" if you will on him silvershadow Apr 2016 #14
I would hardly call Social Security a product of "symbolic gestures" DrDan Apr 2016 #16
How was Social Security incrementalism? KPN Apr 2016 #26
it initially started as a single payment to a retiree DrDan Apr 2016 #30
Very pathetic for a Hillary backer to try to use a New Deal program to support her. BillZBubb Apr 2016 #29
nothing incremental about Social Security? You think the program we have today DrDan Apr 2016 #31
That is pathetic. Sure it has changed. But the initial idea, the birth was a giant step. BillZBubb Apr 2016 #36
so you admit the program we have today is a product of incremental changes DrDan Apr 2016 #39
Geez, IT WOULD HAVE NEVER EXISTED with just incremental changes. BillZBubb Apr 2016 #42
your subject title is pathetic - and you know it - I never used Social Security in support of DrDan Apr 2016 #32
You own pathetic bud. Social securities origin WAS NOT INCREMENTAL. BillZBubb Apr 2016 #40
your own words - "we'd never have had the program to begin with. Let alone incrementally change it." DrDan Apr 2016 #44
Are you really that dense? There would be no Social Security program AT ALL. BillZBubb Apr 2016 #46
take it up with Dr Elizabeth Segal from Arizona State, Professor in the School of Social Work DrDan Apr 2016 #92
She made my point actually. But nice try. BillZBubb Apr 2016 #93
I guess you missed this part DrDan Apr 2016 #94
Its lip service. Sky Masterson Apr 2016 #18
Look at the Clinton presidency. The family leave act, which is NOT paid, is the only thing Skwmom Apr 2016 #20
Taking small steps forward while regressive policy goals like TPP take giant leaps. pa28 Apr 2016 #21
Incrementalism is a deceptive term, because it suggests that the measures Blue Meany Apr 2016 #24
"Some people see things as they are and ask 'why?'... Buns_of_Fire Apr 2016 #25
It occurred to me that "incrementalism" is used because "trickle down" was already taken azurnoir Apr 2016 #28
The powers that be (big money interests and corporations) LOVE incrementalism. BillZBubb Apr 2016 #33
It's conservatism. TransitJohn Apr 2016 #49
Pshaw! History shows us that only incrementalism succeeds RufusTFirefly Apr 2016 #50
It occurs to me RandySF Apr 2016 #51
Bernie has accomplished a great deal in congress senz Apr 2016 #84
Yes, I'd rather have nothing Dem2 Apr 2016 #52
one step forward, one step back MisterP Apr 2016 #54
Most of the "incremental" legislation passed under Bill Clinton and POTUS Obama PufPuf23 Apr 2016 #55
Umm.. every time Bernie is forced to get specific on how he'd implement a policy, ecstatic Apr 2016 #61
of course he can't make dramatic changes - he struggled with minor changes DrDan Apr 2016 #74
Dammit! Stop making sense please! redstateblues Apr 2016 #83
The difference: he will actually WORK to get us there. senz Apr 2016 #87
Do you have any evidence to reassure me that Bernie would "work to get us there?" Because I don't. ecstatic Apr 2016 #88
He is a true statesman and a very accomplished legislator. senz Apr 2016 #89
Incrementalism... JSup Apr 2016 #64
It seldom rises to even symbolism, it's a dirt-cheap pacification technique. nt Umbral18 Apr 2016 #75
Incrementalism noretreatnosurrender Apr 2016 #76
and when your presumed candidate is on video screaming, "There will never be Doctor_J Apr 2016 #79
+1000 senz Apr 2016 #86
Amen! KPN Apr 2016 #90
It's reluctantly making a move when everybody is shouting: make it already, we are waiting! Betty Karlson Apr 2016 #91
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