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In reply to the discussion: Chomsky: The Majority of Today's Elected Democrats Are Moderate Republicans [View all]CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)If they didn't care, they wouldn't have tried to pass bills to address the issues.
Have you forgotten that we spent nearly two years fighting to get the health care progress we have now? It took two years and the biggest majorities in a generation to do that, so the reticence towards Bernie's plans isn't because Dems are heartless, it's because they know we have so many other things to do that we can't spent the entire next term fighting a fight that we can't win right now.
Fair wages? Dems have been fighting for pay equality. Dems tried to pass minimum wage increases all along. Remember when Bernie was in the fight for $10.10 just a couple years ago? Funny how that wasn't called a conservative cop-out back then.
What mainstream Democrats have no interest in is coddling the delusions of people who think we can wave a magic wand and pass anything that comes to mind.