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Examine any figure in political leadership and you'll find weak areas. For example, as much as I admire FDR, I have to admit that there were times when he lacked political courage (notably on the issue of civil rights).
If we're waiting for miracles, we'll be spending the rest of our lives doing that. If we expect everything on our wish list to be fulfilled, we'll spend our lives disappointed.
And if we expend a lot of our energy fighting fellow Democrats, progressives, moderates, and what have you, we'll just be forming a circular firing squad and ENSURING that most of what we want won't get done.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Compromise of some sort is inescapable in politics.
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