Hey ren, I hope your holidays went well.
Weird beginning but I think you are suggesting that incremental politicians will just lead us back to where we are? I promise I won't bring up that you were a big Trump fan if you want to further explain this.
Me too!
Well, we have to. To have the immediate change that you want we have to do one of these:
a) Have a civilization ending catastrophe where most of us are dead
2) Have a world war, which really just ends in the above
c) Revolution. Not the soft revolution that those who talk about real and immediate change want, but an actual bloody revolution which really just leads back to the above.
Let's say there are 80 million Americans that want real change on issue you suggested above. How do you think those are initiated? We have such a massive establishment political lobbying infrastructure that even if the entire legislative and executive branch changed they'd find ways to tie stuff up in courts. There won't be immediate change without America's death. You told me you liked Bernie Sanders. That's a bummer to find out you don't. Oh well.
The only solution here is for us to make changes incrementally. Sometimes that means you'll have to accept a loss or two in an issue or two. As long as over the long run you keep moving forward. Let me ask you, do you think the supply siders and financial tycoons realized they could use southern racists to fund and expand their lobbying infrastructure to make an authoritarian corporate run state that they would get it done in 4 years? You are damn right they didn't. Do you think they saw every candidate as their perfect one? It would be silly to think that. And did you think when they saw a few losses along the way like women being granted control of their own reproductive system, black people allowed to work alongside white people, gay people being allowed to exist, savings and loan regulations were enacted, environmental regulations were tightened and a collection of other losses conservatives took in the 80s and 90s that I can't recall off the top of my head happened that they were happy about it? Of course they weren't. But they kept marching on because they knew in the long run, they were getting what they wanted. Now 40ish years later, they can practically taste their goal and the reasons they have been so successful is that they have never changed their longterm goal, they always accepted some minor losses but they stuck together the entire time.
Good job listing bad traits of Democrat leaders. I am sure the more you look the more you'll find. I don't think you'll ever find anyone saying any of the D leadership is without flaw. I'm not sure of the point here is. Let me know what I'm missing.
Pretty sure CTH is pretty mainstream now, but point taken. Sorry
@Franknbeans. BTW, I love listening to CTH, but I don't agree with all their politics. They are a potlical version of Cumtown to me.