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To Progressives Still Bashing Joe Biden on Principle
Hold up. The dream’s not over. But if Trump wins again, it might be.
A dream deferred, to borrow from the great Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, doesn’t dry up like a raisin in the sun. Even when it sags like a heavy load, it doesn’t necessarily become an impossible dream. It can still explode.
Black people know this. LGBTQ people and women do, too. At least they should.
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and the road to equality for Blacks, gays, and women has taken even longer to pave. That path remains a work in progress. It still doesn’t extend all the way to the realm of straight white men.
But if location is everything in real estate, climate is everything in politics. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, for the second time in four years, has had to concede defeat to a Democratic challenger. That doesn’t mean his progressive agenda must go down, too. The Presidential dream may be over for him, but for now, his platform remains loaded with possibility. That is, however, only in a political climate where his goals can be achieved.
Universal health care, like the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, and marriage equality in previous decades and centuries, is the chief progressive cause of the day. It may feel…
