West Leas Oros 2 wrote:Ngelmish wrote:
You're still misusing the word. Put the goalposts back, and then maybe it becomes possible to talk honestly about the difference left activists have between trying to negotiate with FDR instead of Herbert Hoover. LBJ instead of Richard Nixon. If a politician signals a receptiveness to talk to you, that is a chair, and it's one Joe Biden offered to Bernie Sanders. You don't change the Overton window by never trying to get that politician who will at least consider your pitch -- which, in practice, the "real reform isn't happening quickly enough and then the Republicans come and blow up whatever fig leave we've got, so we just have to blow up the whole thing" is just trying to cut out the political partner as an inessential middle man.
And the funny thing is, doing that doesn't work either.
The same FDR who unconstitutionally locked up Japanese-Americans and only put the New Deal in place because he feared disgruntled workers turning towards socialism and communism? Biden won’t “at least consider the pitch”. In his eyes, it’s “too radical”, and either they cave to his demands, or he refuses to negotiate. Reform is often the tool that reins in “those uppity folk”.
That's not what the word means. You're being deliberately dishonest and don't know how to achieve reform.
