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41. I'm not trashing any ideals

but if you will- considering the Senate and House will probably stay about the same- possible realignment of the Senate- How would it play out politically to pass Single Payer in President Bernie's first two years. Let's be realistic(maybe there's a better word) the House is not going to be in play until the lines are redrawn when the next census is in.2020 I think. I want to believe. I really do-I want to hear the strategy. For example, the much maligned Claire McCaskill-female Democratic Senator from a blood red Conservative state like Missouri -someone I'm sure you would be happy to see gone- she is someone a President Sanders would NEED even if detested her and she only was with him 75% of the time- I live in a state in which the electorate is very similar to MO-I know you probably say you don't want someone like her in our party but in reality you will get a Democrat like her or you will get a Tea Party type in that state-the closest we got to a Democrat in the Senate was the centrist Harold Ford-not a progressives dream. I would like to believe my state TN would elect a progressive Senator but there is no one on the horizon.TN just returned an anti abortion congressman who was cheating on his wife and talked his mistress into getting an abpotion! The idea of a US Senate with 60 Progressives is possible-probably not in my lifetime and certainly not in the next four years. I'm sure you detest incremental change. I want you to show me the plan. I will take incremental change over total futility. Bernie is all or nothing. Show me politically how the "all" is realized.
Change does not happen by accident. It's great to be a visionary but if there is no David Axlerod to come up with the logistics it will not be realized. I want you to know I have great respect for your beliefs. My whole career I have been a point A to point B guy. That's where I am.