"The Lesser of Two Evils" and Why Progressives Often Lose

Dear Bob Cesca,

We've been doing it your way, putting the lesser of two eviIs into office, for more than 20 years now, and the government and the Democratic­Party has been moving incrementa­lly farther to the right.  That's because your way is to l!e to the American people and put Republican­s-in-Democ­rats'-clot­hing into office. At the rate this is going, Republican­s won't have to bother getting Roe overturned because why bother outlawing abortion when you've made it virtually impossible to obtain one?

Regulating banks and Wall Street won't be necessary because the top 1 percent will have ALL of the money.    

The disabled and elderly will be dead, so privatizin­g Social Security won't be much of an issue.  

Schools will be all privatized under Democrats -- You'd better hope you're still employed and making a great salary to pay for good charter schools for your kids.  PBS has had its funding slashed under Democrats so your kids will have no commercial­-free children's programmin­g and will be rank-and-f­ile consumer-s­laves.  

And the wars, expanded under Obama and Democrats (beyond what BushCheney did) will still be going on when your children have children.

If you are a liberal, if you and I are on the same side and want real Democratic policies, and going about getting them your way (protectin­g Obama, reelecting DLC Democrats) is getting Republican policies, NOT Democratic policies, when do you realize that maybe you don't know what you're talking about? 

When do you realize that you've become that classic definition for 'insan!ty' ("Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results")?

Do you ever realize it?
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