with is take on Platner et al , or both I guess.
Me, I think it's great he spoke up. His views are spot on for me. But there's also some good news - bad news aspect in what he's describing. The question is: if more progressives do win primaries and get elected with the help of independent voters, will the Democratic Party actually respond and work in a way that actually achieves conspicuously visible, tangible and substantive benefits for the working class? That's a legitimate and big question in my book ... and therein lies the rub. Will the Democratic "establishment" as Reich called it get on board? Is the Democratic Party sufficiently committed to helping the middle class as a chief priority? Will they have the courage to risk their political careers by taking on big money in the process of bettering the lives of working Americans, or will they try to thread the needle and fall short on that in attempting to have it both ways via "compromise" as they have in the past?
If it's the latter, I would say Reich's take is bad news. Voters vote because they want results. I'm rooting for progressives. I'll be thrilled if they win primaries. It may end up being bad news down the road based on results, but I'm willing to take that chance. What we've been doing the past 40+ years has not worked -- at least on the economic front which is a common denominator among middle and lower class Americans.
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