Being wedged is a choice

Spare me all the “realist” arguments about politics being the art of the possible. Of course it is, but there is difference between realism and capitulation.

Politics is also about beliefs and values, and it is about fighting for what you believe in, and it is about trusting that, even if not at first, then at some point, you will be able to bring people with you, and so you hang in there.

Just like people did on equal marriage, only to find that the country had well-and-truly shifted.

If you keep giving in on the grounds that, for now, people will only accept one point of view on a given issue and not another, eventually that other option will wither and die, and it will finally seem like there is no alternative.

Unless you keep the alternatives alive by fighting for them, they will disappear.

Unless you are willing to not compromise on at least some things, you will eventually turn into what you hate.

All in the name of realism.

The status quo will always say change isn’t possible, or isn…