re: #225 HappyWarrior

To me the problem is self fancied progressives have unrealistic expectations of what our candidates can do. All the time I hear them say “Well why couldn’t have Obama or Clinton been more like FDR” FDR was gifited with Dem super-majorities in both legislatures since the nation blamed the Republicans for the Great Depression and honestly in some ways FDR did come up short that they ignore too. I’ll take someone who may be slightly more moderate but knows what they’re doing than a damn the torpedoes progressive type because the former is definitely going to impact more long term change. I also have seen nothing from Sanders and sad to say Warren that suggests they’d be ready for legislatures that aren’t as ready for their ideas. I still recall Bernie’s suggestion that the people would just protest the GOP Congress stopping his plans. That’s not how society works.

And people have protested Congress doing stuff….and….Republicans have done it anyway.