Unfortunately, this isn't Dreamland.  This is America, where Planned Parenthood can be bought off with forgiven loans for their employees and money to their clinics through an amendment offered by, of all people, Bernie Sanders, and the unions can be bought off with favors to their executives, despite the wishes of the rank-and-file.  "Progressives" who manage to get elected never stand up for their principles and always cave.  They are lousy politicians who are afraid of their own shadows.  They want to maintain their power no less than any other pol, and they will do anything, including betraying the principles they promised to uphold when they were campaigning, in order to maintain their lofty positions.

Progressives had a couple of good years in the thirties and another couple in the sixties.  But ever since then, we've been represented by thieving charlatans or by spineless wimps.  That is not going to change.