to accomplish, not fixated on what we have to do to make it happen. This is the real world. The less power we have, the bigger the tradeoffs we have to accept to achieve anything.
I also don't see business as fundamentally evil, though unregulated business always becomes a huge and dangerous problem. Businesses are enormous, and enormously powerful, national assets that have to be involved to accomplish big things.
Lol, I thought of suggesting you check into some of the deals required to create the New Deal programs, the Fair Deal programs, LBJ's Great Society and War on Poverty, and on and on, but what decades of often putrid sausage making accomplished might have the wrong effect. The bitter battles and tradeoffs between the New Dealers' rabid southern conservative and Black factions, both of which were critical to passing bills, were extremely ugly and painful. The socialist faction was so outraged at the New Deal's "corruption" and "betrayal" of the people that they did their best to destroy it. And of course evil business was part of all of it.
But the entire nation benefited, then and ever since. And in every era Democrats play whatever hands the electorate deals to do our best to fulfill our campaign promises and keep advancing our national wellbeing. I trust our commitment to our professed goals, Tiberius. We're the progressives in progressive government and the liberals in liberal democracy.
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