have a record of actually getting things done.

if why a governor sometimes makes a better candidate than a senator. Washington gets awfully theoretical at times, and people who've run purple or red states sometimes have a better grasp on what's achievable.

And I found that Bernie and Warren went too far for me, in these ways:

Medicare for All seems more like an infliction, rather than a progression from Obamacare expansion to single-payer options that I would like to see and which would be less painful.

I don't think everyone who enters the country should be afforded a health care plan, although of course they should receive treatment when medically necessary.

I don't think now-illegal border crossings should be decriminalized. (We can always decline to prosecute).

What we heard last night of the Green New Deal sounds great, but I would like to hear more of the specifics, particularly those aspects not directly related to the environment, before I agree on it as a package.

These points are areas that would make us very vulnerable to average, middle-of-the-road voters in a general election.

Those two aren't incompatible.

We can be pragmatic and understand POLITICS.

For example: The comparison with now and 1964 when Medicare was passed.
Democrats had overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate. After Kennedy's assassination, the country
was on the Democrat's side.

It was not like now at all. It's easy to be bold when the political will and Congress are on your side.

have their starting point the same as their ending point. Like they have a fucking magic wand or something. What counts for a "promise" to them is not counted as a "promise" from their end. That's just understanding politics. If they don't dream, they can't be held to account.

1 far left, anti-establishment, semicloseted socialist; 3 who are overall moderate/centrist and mostly socially liberal/fiscally conservative; and 1 Marianne Williamson who probably fits best with Sanders.

Good for Warren and Sanders for having the sense to pull together for common goals in spite of their great differences. Sanders embodies belief in Eldridge Cleaver's frequent statement that if you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem, and to him, of course, establishment-Dem Warren is a serious part of the problem, the more so for being a credible FDR-type iconoclaust.

I wouldn't vote for #FiveWhiteMen Ryan for dog catcher, and I suspect he's been tailoring his voting record to appear more liberal to support his current presidential run, similar to blue dog Delaney's,, but they do at least illustrate how huge the difference can be between some of our blue dog conservatives and the conservative congressmen in the Republican Party.

so of course it's a center/left party.
But getting called a "DINO" or "Republican-Lite" has gotten old for someone who has voted for every Democratic candidate for president starting with McGovern just because I'm not as Liberal as some Democrats.

In Iowa., the active party people are hard left.. the rest of the Democratic party here are center left..