Democratic Primaries

Jefferson predicted in an oligarchic government run directly or indirectly by the rich, "America’s working people must come to labor sixteen hours in the twentyfour...the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread...we must live, as they [poor Europeans] now do, on oatmeal and potatoes...have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers."   

I'm a pragmatist, I refuse to allow the "perfect be the enemy of the good." Our inability to enact ultimate progressive goals today should not be the reason we cannot have some measure of progress. As Watson-Watt, in The Cult of the Imperfect, wrote, "Give them the third best to go on with; the second best comes too late, and the best never comes."