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++Washington Monthly decides to discuss "pragmatic  progressives" and criticizes Bernie Sanders' "Too Big To Fail,Too Big To Exist" bill. While it has gotten enthusiastic support from the Left, the author says it is highly impractical.

++This holds for single-payer healthcare, which some of us would love. But the "pragmatic progressive" knows it could never have happened in our political system and that Obamacare was about the best you can do when you need 60 votes.

++The discussion at that website made me think about how almost futile the Climate Change debate is getting. We have now passed 400 ppm when 350 as in 350.org is safe for humans. I'm delighted that Thom Hartman keeps harping on the impending global disaster but why is there no reaction that this is an emergency? 

++About the best we can get at this stage is a new Climate Change agreement in Paris in December. Pope Francis should help the movement along.

++But even though there are solutions and some are being put in place now,our political system can not take the necessary steps in a timely manner.

++You have a political party that refuses to even address the issue and cut funding from NASA's budget to do earth sciences. What will be there excuse when the time gets close for massive human migration? 

++While there is much chatter about income inequality and the fact that we have some of the most drastic wealth gaps, there is not an awareness of how destabilizing to our political economy this issue is.

++Do we have enough time of this issue? It's very difficult to see how this will drive the next election. Yes, there is enormous frustration with the pace of the recovery. But if things continue, Barack Obama might end up like Bill Clinton with a 4.9% unemployment rate. Good news for the United States but hardly creates the environment for a real populist agenda.

++I think the issues being generated from the Left are more valid than those from the Right but I am dubious they will gain traction in 2016.