How long before progressives realize that their impractical idealism can't bring progress

 Its 4th November 2020 and we are yet to hear what's happening in the US  with the elections .  I am hoping and expecting that the people will tell those who have held too much power ( especially in the public service ) that all they have done ( as all  they have done in Australia)  is make real power unproductively  expensive for the poor .
The hidden costs of big ideas is not something dreamers face easily . 
Sometimes nothing works properly in a democracy until the people are ready to really listen and observe reality again. 





How many reelections of Trump or Morrison will it take to make the Sir Humphreys of the left wake up to the waste they have created? .Who has the courage and wisdom to move them on ?  

As the Victorian dictatorship will eventually  show,  Conservation can't be imposed , it must be taught. If countercultural conservation that works isn't taught , it can be expected to live on in name only . Such tokens can be expected , as they have done for the last decade , to be so expensive and unproductive idols,  that they continue to bring the houses down.