Frank... Iv read your posts ,and the problem is that we dont all want the same things.
What the real left wants ,both in America and the "United Kingdom"
is to see the eventual demise of the Capitalist system, something which seems to be anathema to the Democratic Party, and at the moment to a large slice of the American Public.
The list of fine things you say you want, can never be achieved under the present system.

How can you dismiss direct action as irrelevant when almost every major change in modern history has been won on the streets..Ake