Thanks Charmion and #.....excellent summation.

I still think that to change society will take several decades and a start must be made somewhere.
In the UK Mr Corbyn was elected leader by the rank and file left, he has no hope of winning an election to form a government. he realises that and most of his supporters realise that.....but the important thing is that he will be explaining and educating the UK public on how socialism is going to work.
We could have voted for a Blair clone(like Mrs Clinton) who could have been "nationally electable" but in another decade we would be no further forward regarding the construction of a fairer society and economic structure.

This is the situation with the US, people with a socialist viewpoint need to play the long game and part of that game is to fracture the stranglehold that the corporations and their servants the Political Parties have over the socioeconomic system.