re: #155 sagehen

“Taking extreme and unpopular views is going to make it hard to win elections and deliver on your agenda. But the opposite of “extreme and unpopular” views isn’t necessarily “moderate” views, it’s being smart and doing your homework on what’s popular.

“There are easily enough bold progressive ideas out there that are popular — the ones on this list, but also well-known ideas like raising the minimum wage — that there’s little practical cost to urging politicians to emphasize the popular ones while steering clear of unpopular stances.”

I’d be more in favour of that approach if “simply allowing trans-people to transition” weren’t still a mildly unpopular stance, as Bernie’s people are stressing in their push to nominate him while pushing LGBT even behind straight Black men.

At some point you have to stand for social justice even if it’ll decrease your vote margin somewhat.