Jerome a Paris makes an excellent point which I’ve long felt to be true.
But where is the “fucking nuts” left that scares the right to death and makes them want to compromise with Pelosi at all costs? Where are the people arguing for 90% marginal tax rates on the rich, and cancelling the banking licences of banks that charge usurious rates on credit cards, and closing down the insurance licenses of companies that deny care to anyone, and setting minimum wages at levels that allow for decent living standards, and putting taxes on imports from countries that let kids work or have no environmental rules (all things that get very real public support if you actually ask people rather than pundits and lobbyists)?
If Progressives aren’t willing to throw establishment Democrats under the bus, as movement conservatives have been doing with their Republican counterparts for more than a decade, no one will ever care about our demands.
The above also ties in with the concept of the Overton Window, which thereisnospoon frequently champions.
With that in mind, happy New Year.
