Putting the politics of Sanders, Warren and Ocasio-Cortez in an historical perspective

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6. Excellent point. The question is, how do we move back to what used to be the center?

I only see one way to do this: win elections. It is clear that in the present political climate, AOC, Warren and Sanders cannot do it by themselves. They need way more like-minded colleagues to move the post. It may take years, if not decades, to get enough momentum on their side.

I say "their side" because I disagree with their methods, although not their sentiments, in achieving results. Bernie's rhetorical revolution looks more and more like practical evolution with each passing year. In the mean time, we are losing critical ground to the above mentioned right wingers who keep moving the country's political culture to the right, for many years, if not decades, to come. It is precisely because of this continuing movement to the right, not the lofty goals espoused to by the revolutionaries, that the idea of a revolution is impractical, if not disastrous. We are all witness to how painfully difficult it is to regain the lost ground. The Supreme Court losses alone have set us back generations.

This is why I am a big advocate of moderate incrementalism. Incrementalism implies movement forward. And it seems to me a surer, quicker and more realistic way to move the post back to the left than to keep watching the continued movement of the post to the right.