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Originally Posted by dc_dux
I think you guys are engaging in an interesting intellectual exercise, but IMO, it ignores the pragmatism that is required in pursuit of a political agenda that can generate majority support in Congress (and of the American people) and actually be implemented given the circumstances that will be inherited.
A guy like Kucinich (or even Nader) might fit your mold, but do you believe that such a president could get much of his agenda through a nearly evenly divided Congress? Hell,they probably wouldnt even get support from a majority of the Democrats for some of their truly "progressive" proposals.
Pragmatism is the word of the day.
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Do you think it is at all odd, that you react to what I am bringing up in these two threads, the way that you do? You've posted that you started out in Washington in the office of a senator from WV, so I think you have an idea of the chronic, higher than average poverty level in that state.
What has all of the pragmatism of the representation in Washington, sent there by the people of WV, actually achieved for that constituency since 1936? Is wealth in the US more equitably distributed now, than then? Have the people of WV achieved anything comparable to what the average man in France has achieved through the effect of his vote?
Why not? If you can't even consider it happening, how could it, ever?