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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 we don't control the House, and if we don't control the supermajority in the Senate, no amount of fighting is going to give us a far-left government. That was the case when the ACA was being negotiated. When there wasn't a single vote to spare, things like the public option had virtually no chance of passing, so why would you waste your limited political capital on that, when you're not going to wind up getting what you want?
Talking as though we can pass anything we want is reckless. It's the same kind of wishful thinking that people attached to Obama in '08, and when reality fell short of that, people became disillusioned.
Admitting we have to pick and choose where to invest our energy, and to take what we can get in areas where the movement isn't on our side, isn't weak. It's good governance.