
There are many examples like this. Courts can only work because most people obey the law; elections only work because both sides agree to accept if they lose. Democracy’s day-to-day is run by systems, but those systems are held up by mutual agreement, not a more stable bulwark.
…o-legislators can get behind, in the political climate that exists and in the place where you work. I concluded that Sanders was less interested in actually accomplishing anything than he was in staging protests where he could claim some kind of moral high ground, not interested in getting in the weeds and doing anything to actually achieve his goals within the Congress he worked in. This research put Sanders’ supposedly pristine progressive agenda in perspective: it is very easy t…