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He looks senile. He is.
Progressives want community policing. They don't want no police. You're confusing progressives with anarchists.
I'm more leftist than you are, and I've already convinced several. The key idea is that we should always do the best we can. If the choice is between bombing Iran and not bombing Iran, I choose not bombing Iran. If the choice is between sanctioning West Bank settlers and getting aid to Gaza and not doing those things, I choose the former. If the choice is between teaching Americans black history as American history and not teaching black history, I choose the former. If the choice is between helping refugees and removing their legal status after they're already in the country and deporting them, you can guess which one I'm going to choose.
While I make these choices, I convince others who aren't as progressive as me why the progressive policies that aren't yet popular make sense, so the next time around, we'll have the votes for it. In just the same way, I convince progressives who don't think through the consequences of their actions why they need to, so we have the votes not to backslide into regressive policies. I don't agree with anybody I vote for 100% of the time, but I do understand that voting for them is better than the alternative. Imagine if people who wanted equal rights for black people didn't vote for Lincoln because he said he didn't think that blacks should marry whites or go to the same schools (read the Lincoln Douglas debate transcripts).