Everybody wants change yesterday, but they never actually get that. They don’t even get major immediate change. At best they get incremental progress.
So when evaluating someone’s achievements, you can’t hold them to an impossible standard. Someone is not a failure if they were unable to change the past. In fact, they are a success if they deliver the best outcome that is actually achievable. And history shows that outcome is incremental progress.
I think you’re misattributing who the villains of progress are. MLK had attributed it to the white moderates that stood in the way of progress. I’m doing the same. The right is not a majority. If the moderates would play ball with the progressives, we could get a lot done immediately, but they refuse.
In order for moderates to play ball with progressives, progressives must be willing to play ball with moderates.
We do… all the time. We put Biden over the finish line, for example. And then yall ask us to do it again while refusing to throw us some bones.
We are happy to compromise, but its supposed to be a give and take. Moderates never give