Another good point. Some of you will remember a rambunctious character by the name of Gary Hart. Sen. Hart was always babbling and moaning with wild-eyed gaze about "new ideas" as if their very newness was what made them true. If you had asked any conventional U.S. Democrat at that time (the 1980s)what they were struggling forwards to, I doubt anyone would have spelled out the scenario of the actual 8 years of the Clinton reign. Had Gary Hart won the presidency presumably his ideas would now be old and, therefore, false and would need to be changed. This is a well-known fallacy and is very common in the thinking and discourse of so-called liberals. The deeper you probe, the fuzzier it gets.