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In reply to the discussion: Thank you, Dennis, for everything. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)The fact is, once you settle for passing compromise bills, you stop BEING a progressive. Watered-down bills don't lead to progressive outcomes anymore. It's not progressive if the change takes freaking decades.
Dennis did everything any Dem could have done during his era in Congress.
Nobody really got much of anything passed. If anybody did, you'd have offered an example of an "effective" progressive. Yet you don't have one. Therefore, you're admitting it was impossible to be effective and progressive in terms of passing real legislation during Dennis' era in Congress, since weak, watered-down bills don't count as effectiveness.
No Dems at all met whatever standards you think you're upholding here.
And it was totally inappropriate for you to come in and spoil this thread.