The Liberal Position on the Welfare State

A lot of Brink's criticisms are about strategy which is something we talk about on the show a lot anyway, whether or not it's best to proceed from a radical standpoint. I think there's another I mean another false dilemma happening here and another interesting thing happening in this argument that because moderation is maybe more effective in getting policy stuff done in Washington. It strikes me as odd to say that well we can make progress on this thing if we just pretend that we agree with them on all this other stuff. But my feeling is if you want to be respected in serious conversations about politics that look you just say like this is what I believe right?