Reply #6: I disagree with your friend - in the 40's and 50's the Dems party got [View All]

[papau]

progressive ideas passed - to the extent they did get passed - only by dealing with populist Southern racist Dems.

One of the Things that I recall is the way the GOP ideas ran the House and Senate despite "Dem" control - as those Southern Dems voted with the GOP.

Progressices just do not have the numbers - folks can be moved by fear for security, and fear of the "other" as to job, to the point we never can do any good. We must be non-threatening, promising only to end GOP corruption, and to give a larger role for government that helps folks, but all the while we "keep gov out of their lives (since the GOP has made an art form of saying Dems put gov in your way - all the while passing the look in the bedroom and bug the house laws we have today)".

Protesting can get tiring if you are accomplishing no changes to the system.