2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I'm sick and tired of hearing Clinton is the most qualified ever w/NO facts cited to back it up. [View all]thank god King and the Civil Rights Movement didn't listen to people like you. He didn't ask what Bull Connor would allow and worked within those confines. After all, the system in the South was centuries old, how dare he have an alternative vision and fight the power structure to see that through. He had a long term vision that wasn't possible in the short term and he and the movement organized around that vision. The labor movement didn't look at what the corrupt politicians at the time would allow and work within those confines. They had a long term vision in mind and simply fought the power structure. If those movements listened to people like you, and adopted your mindset, we as a country would we worse off. Same is true with how Canada got Medicare.
What you are basically arguing for is for your party to not fundamentally change an inequitable and corrupt system, which is leading us to ecological collapse. You pretend this mindset is a virtue, which really just provides cover for corrupt politicians like the Clintons, Obama and the Republicans to do what is in the interest of their largest donors and the owners of our society, political system and media. THEY don't want the system to change, so if everyone believes in some justification that makes it okay to not push for fundamentally changing the system, good for them. I also don't hate Obama at all, I certainly like him more than Clinton, I just have an appreciate for objective reality. His largest donors were also banks, something Clinton seems to think is just fine, so it is no surprise to me that he has backed policies that have benefited the freaking banks. He got major support from giant corporate interests, so I am not surprised by his three free trade deals, his support for school privatization, his push for the TPP, his support for austerity, or him making Bush's tax cuts permanent on carried interest, dividends, capital gains and estates (all of which benefit the super rich).
It isn't a virtue, it's pathetic and it will do in the coming years what it has been doing now for decades. It will lead to people falling further behind, more inequality, more corruption, even worse infrastructure, and within a few decades, outright ecocide. People like yourself and those that run the DNC don't even attempt to pretend they propose actual alternatives anymore. Pathetic, and I hope a party does emerge on the left to challenge you for votes.