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In reply to the discussion: Sanders tanked Clinton. [View all]get the red out
(13,466 posts)I agree with everything you said. Politics and ideological purity don't go together well. The Republican tent gets smaller every day and are now the KKK party willing to destroy democracy to stay in power, and still are terrible at actually governing and have backed themselves into a corner with their purity where the face death through demographics. Unless they manage to create a dictatorship, this is a very short term strategy.
The irony is that we can achieve a LOT of what the purists say they want, but they want it twenty minutes after the next D President takes office and all at once. Completely irrational. For instance "Don't ask, Don't Tell" was still in effect when a rather moderate President Obama took office, now gay marriage is legal throughout the country and the right is hanging onto being anti-trans by their fingernails.
We can do this but we also need to face the fact that politics takes time and work, with compromises along the way. JMO.