Recognizing One's Limitations

Usually, I read Bob Cesca's blog for its sense of humor and for its righteous anger toward the lack of progressivism in modern Washington politics. Now Cesca realizes where the progressive movement stands vis-a-vis the ideological center and warns his fellow libs to chill out and learn to work slowly.

Until we have real electoral leverage, we're more expendable than the ideological center. However, if, slowly but surely, we get incrementally progressive-ish legislation, the ideological balance in America will begin to move in our direction and we gain more leverage.

Now he's thinking like a centrist, which is essential. You can fight all you want for "progressive-ish" laws to be passed, but if you act like an angry liberal, you lose.