So since you've "complimented" me by noting that I've "finally" come around, let me likewise compliment you on the accuracy of your perceptions, your attention to our discussions, and the accuracy of your analysis of my positions on the issues.

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.

You're at a 7 with those statements, you should be at a 5. 

There is a difference between achingly deciding that this lousy bill is slightly better than nothing and "announcing it as the finest cherry Kool-aid."

Most of the Left, even the ones who have come to the decision to vote for/advocate for voting for this bill don't like it and hope that it is just the first in a long series of uphill battles.  Almost no Progressive is saying "This bill is GREAT!  Where do I sign?"

I don't happen to agree with them--I would be voting "no" on this bill.  But they aren't sheeple for wrestling with it for 8 months and finally throwing up their hands and trying to make the best of it.  Overly optimistic, maybe, but not sheeple.