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In reply to the discussion: "The Hard Left are no different than the Hard Right" [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)We all know it is about compromise and pragmatism.
DU is where we discuss our ideas, our ideals, our hopes and dreams, what we think would be best for America.
If you can't dream, if you can't discuss your dreams, you will never improve things.
The conservatives here misunderstand the more liberal DUers. Conservatives think we liberals are unrealistic. That is not true. We see reality and we want to improve it.
What we don't like about the conservatives on DU is that they are fatalistic. They accept less than should be accepted. And they refuse to discuss or respect those who discuss possibilities that are better than the reality.
It is possible to dream, to discuss and think about what should be while still accepting the limitations of what you have to put up with to get to what should be. That is the story of America. Someone dreamed of a railroad. Impossible the conservatives said. But no. The government gave companies the land to build a railroad. And the railroad was built.
Leonardo da Vinci dreamed that we humans would one day fly. And we do fly -- in airplanes -- a contraption that another dreamer created.
Someone thought that it would be good to have a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Conservatives preferred the old, reliable monarchy. Conservatives said that democracy, a republic governed of the people, by the people and for the people would be chaotic and end in misery. America revolted against monarchy and agreed to a Constitution that provides for the separation of powers between three branches of government and, by guaranteeing in the BIll of Rights certain fundamental limitations on government, makes government by the people, of the people and for the people a real possibility -- provided we safeguard our rights.
Reality based politics is necessary. But on DU the point is to get beyond it. The point is to work and talk about something better than the status quo.
That is why reports on all the wonderful things that Obama is doing are great, but more appropriate on other websites.
This is the Democratic UNDERGROUND, not the Democratic mainstream. Thank you.