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In reply to the discussion: Clinton Not Progressive Enough? Depends Upon What You Mean By Progressive [View all]winter is coming
(11,785 posts)It looks like we think it's okay to put more more money in insurance companies' pockets and call it "healthcare", when all we've done is give people crappy health insurance some of them can't afford to use, while leaving millions still uninsured.
It looks like we're so afraid of being seen as politically ineffective that most won't publicly campaign for measures that would help the 99%. We will not succeed in changing things via quiet incremental triangulation. Most politicians follow, not lead. Only by making it politically toxic to keep cutting deals with the people who put corporations over people will we effect change, and trying to "protect" the everyday voter is a recipe for failure. The everyday voter already knows that things are fucked up. Unless we call that out and are honest about where we are and where we need to go and how we can possibly get there, we're going to look like another cog in the system that's oppressing them.
We've been worried that being seen to fail of our aspirations will make us look like "losers". What's far more damaging to the party is that we now look like we're not even willing to try. Spinning our failures as successes does nothing to correct that perception.