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I think you make a very good point about pragmatism dc... Anyone running for President in this day and age could not win if he or she were to suggest that they were going to rock the boat as host suggests.
If progressives are truly interested in making these sorts of investigations occur they first need to make these sorts of things part of the popular discourse. At present this is fringe politics at best.
To be clear, we are living in an age where the crafting of public opinion part of the political process more than it ever has been... mostly because the tools with which public opinion is formed has become as much a science as it is (and was) an art.
In a US of 50/50 elections, it is not the candidates job to push too hard on changing public opinion. To do so can end up with losing the election. The pragmatist will stand a much better chance of winning than those who try to force something on the public that they are not quite ready to accept.
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