Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

There is little or no purity in our politics rather what we have is a hell of a lot closer to a sickly corrupt and highly toxic dumpster fire not too many choir girls and boys do gooding our nation into oblivion.
So, when someone gets all diarrhea of the mouth about "purity" big green Ben Franklins to little brown Lincolns they are trying to remove what little fiber there is in some fit of avarice for money or power even if not personally vested but rather what they make believe to be their Avatar or falling prey to puffed up Mayberry Machiavellian snake oil they have sold to them fucking selves despite in no way corresponding with observation.

Of course the perfect can be the enemy of the good but when was the last time EITHER was in the equation? Particularly the "perfect".
Shit, I can't think of a single subject where "perfect" was even sought or discussed to even act as an aspirational mooring from where the compromises that eventually the "good" is comprised of would start from.
Then we have defined "good" as any hair or bit better than the wicked and lousy TeaPubliKlans might do which means about every time the now completely trite little proverb is rolled out it actually means don't let the minimally tolerable be the enemy of something less than our most paranoid and fevered nightmares.