I would suggest, that even from a purely craven, pragmatic sense, it is worthwhile, longterm, to fight some battles that you will lose.

I appreciate the dialogue.

Fellow idealist in the house.

See, these are big ideas.

Happy birthday.

Yeah, this sounds right.

The primary lesson I have learned is that alleged wise, world-weary sages on the internet, (or cable talks shows), are often quite wrong.

Have your views towards AOC changed slightly over the last year?

Incremental change is not working.

Especially well off centrists like the OP who just happen to make their bones in this type of environment:

The problem with your history metrics is that they probably did not predict one Donald Trump, would that be correct?

I love you.

Simple. We are going to tax the rich.

I think most millennials would vote for Obama against any Republican.

Your creativity is very impressive! You tickled my brain.

Yeah this gets super dicey.

Teach me.

Uh oh...our sitcom just hit its first snag.

Then you keep the advance, and declare bankruptcy!