"if you don't ask, you won't get"

Ask for more than you expect. Because if you ask for what you expect, you might not even get that.

When you sell a car you ask for a few hundred more dollars than you would like because the buyer is always going to try to get something less than asking price and it makes them feel good to get a deal.

... congress with safe seats for half generation and do NOTHING for Americans as the GOP is doing now?

Would that be more progressive?

I'm tired of hearing people scream at the cab driver for not going through stop and go traffic faster

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Independence, suffrage, ending slavery, unionizing, living wage, decent work hours, health care, etc

Those unrealistic activists stuck it out & achieved "the impossible."

So can WE.

Spending so many election cycles expecting less, cowering from the opposition, while Republicans win way more seats than the number of people that support them, failing to stand up for real change - it all needs to end!

It's so true that now, politicians like Clinton are schooling young people to expect less and ask for less. It's a campaign - inspire people, especially young people, who will have to deal with the mess once we middle-aged and older people have passed on. What will we leave for them??? So glad that Sanders is putting these perspectives into the political conversation, and it's up to us to turn it into policy!!

They deserve a chance to fight rather than have no power as the chosen establishment pieces move about the board compromising away their hopes, dreams, and futures.

I want them to have the chance that we did when we fought the good fight and achieved some of our liberal goals. They decided (our party in the eighties, culminating in '92) that there would no longer be a party to fight with the idealistic youth for things like labor rights, The New Deal, The Great Society, Civil Liberties, Equality for Women and the last attempted fight that died on the vine, the fight against poverty that was abandoned in favor of a fight against the poor via welfare reform.

They deserve to fight for these things as we did, not because they are easy, but because they are necessary to their survival.

The deserve more than the smell of sulfur that brings forth a demon of lesser evil that says "no you cant!" - "I will compromise away your fight for you so you may have the crumbs my corporate sponsors allow you to have."

They deserve the right to fight and leadership that will help rather than hinder that fight.
We all had that (us older folk) but took it for granted. They have only had dismissal and the lack of support offered Vichy Republican collaborators.

Let us help them elect someone (many ones) that will allow them to fight.

Classic Clinton politics.

I'll vote for the one willing to step into the ring, over the one who doesn't even wanna lace em up, every time.