I enthusiastically support a candidate who advocates for dramatic change, and my fellow volunteers and I understand that they almost certainly won't happen. Ou

I enthusiastically support a candidate who advocates for dramatic change, and my fellow volunteers and I understand that they almost certainly won't happen. Our experience has been that anything that results from our work will be compromised, and we want to aim high so that we can compromise somewhere in the middle. It seems like you're implying that people who argue for "x" are ignorant of the fact that they'll get a fraction of x. Anecdotally, people who argue for "x" are aware of the fact that they'll get a fraction... so they ask for very high values of x.