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[Sparkly]

"Change can come as fast as everyone is willing to handle" -- right. And how fast is "everyone willing to handle" right now? And what can be done about that -- what works, what doesn't?

#4 - Are you saying the changes (whatever they may be) need to be made first, then people will get on board with them? So how does one make changes people are NOT on board with? Who decides? Who makes the changes? Why do they make them?

#5 - Unless you're of the mind that the two major parties are identical, we're not "powerless," and a vote for a Democrat is not wasted. It is a vote AGAINST a Republican.

#6 - I have almost NEVER seen "left," in the sense of political views, denigrated on DU. They are hardly even discussed. I see "left" as a fashion label, and the term is starting to represent a range of feelings and behaviors that are often frankly, well -- less than helpful. THAT gives "left" a bad name.

#7 -- Idealism and Reality are NOT mutually exclusive. Being clear about them is critical. It is indeed only an inch -- not a revolution -- but every one of those inches MATTERS. It's the inch of a small paragraph in a piece of legislation that can affect thousands upon thousands of lives. Idealism, in my view, should give those value, NOT diminish the millions of items of legislation we can't get to pass.