All purpose news and politics thread part v: The quickening

[PwrdOn]

The number of Democrats who consider themselves Progressives has been steadily rising the past few years.

I do agree, however - in order for many of Sanders' ideas to bear fruit, it would take a few Election cycles of liberals coming out in force before we could push some of them through. Americans idiots tend to be very impatient, however, and would dismiss him at the drop of a dime once they see him as ineffectual, when in reality it is the system which will be failing them.

The difficult part of building up a progressive base is that, at our core, American voters are all a bunch of bandwagon jumpers who will tend to check out if we think our side is losing, and left wing policies require a certain degree of long term commitment and "trusting the process" that our society is quite poor at. This is why it's imperative though that we hit the ground running and try to push for these radical reforms when we have a bit of momentum, rather than waiting for incremental change.