General Discussion

...the next Dem President. They get elected and get maybe a month to start getting to work before the "we can't count votes" Left starts relentlessly riding whomever he or she may be. This was the worst part of the Obama years, that fringe sect being loud in their denial of the situation and dividing our side of the aisle while Republicans gleefully rode back into town after 2 years and slowly took away Obama's ability to even get another Supreme Court justice nominated.

I'm not going to sit quiet about it. I'm going to call it out when I hear it. Every. Single. Time.

"Why isn't President such and such calling for single payer NOW?"

Because we don't have the votes...

"Who cares? We need to be bold! We need to use to bully pulpit!" and other political mythological nonsense that means nothing in the real world.

When the next Democratic president governs with the Congress that America gives them, they will be pragmatic and get things done where they can. Its going to be even worse with the makeup of the Supreme Court as we already discovered during the Biden years. MOST of their time is going to be spent trying to clean the Trump stains off of everything.

And as far as the "ideals of the Democratic Party" go, that is also, mostly a myth. We have a vague agreement across the spectrum on some core issues and then very different ideas outside of that. You aren't going to get AOC type reps elected in midwestern purple districts. You aren't going to get Joe Manchin elected in Brooklyn (for the best, but I digress). Its a big tent party because thats the only way it exists in this climate.

Thats why there will be compromise which will be attacked as "triangulation". Thats why there will be incrementalism attacked as "mediocrity". We have a lot of people in this party that can't accept the fact that there are more districts that will elect candidates with a center left approach than there are districts that will elect Bernie Sanders acolytes (no disrespect to Bernie, I love Bernie, but he has that same problem in refusing to accept the truth in that regard).

The chances of seeing another FDR type situation or JFK to LBJ type situation in our lifetime is very slim. It would take some sort of massive national tragedy to reverse where the math is going and even that might not work with the way redistricting and gerrymandering is being used to basically create permanent red and blue majorities from respective states. That will take generations to unwind. Get use to it. You aren't getting another FDR. The best we could hope for is another Obama and we need at least 4-5 consecutive terms of that incremental approach to actually get things where we want. It has to happen gradually.