Successful Politics Includes Compromise

I am a solid progressive on the political scale but I realize that politics is not a game of pure ideology. Any political party that nominates someone from the far ends of the political spectrum is doomed to fail. Also, politics is not a "hard" science and there are things to learn from both sides of the political spectrum.  This article should be a fair warning to the Democrats presently.

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