Bernie to introduce new Billionaire tax with benefits going to needs of THE PEOPLE!

[MineralMan]

8. People Have Been Saying That for Many Years

It still does not happen.

We elect a few truly progressive people to Congress, but never enough to implement things like that. They're good aspirations, but exceedingly unlikely.

Frankly, in today's political environment, we're lucky when we have Democratic majorities to work with. Even more rarely do we have all three - both houses of Congress and the Presidency. That has happened not too long ago, but we still could not enact things like universal health care.

What we forget is that having such majorities lets us move toward the ideal, but never guarantees reaching that Ideal. Sadly, we allow ourselves to become discouraged and then we lose even the small majorities. That's what is going on right now. We have missed the boat a couple of times in recent years, ending up with people like Trump in the White House and weaknesses in Congress. So, we stall, as we are now stalled.

We insist that only the ideal will do, and end up with just the opposite. We should learn from experience, but we never do.