Most of the people complaining about "purity ponies" are folks who are pretty much satisfied with the status quo. You know, brown kids in cages, white schools getting three times the funding of schools in neighborhoods with a low percentage of white students, folks with household incomes above $100,000/year and an attitude that says, "Hey it's your fault your kid got sick so it's okay for you to lose your house", they're good with top 1%'ers getting 30+% of all income and having it taxed at roughly 1/3 what they were paying under St. Ronald Reagan, they can afford $2300/month for decent health insurance and so can you by golly, etc.

Complaining about any of that (let alone suggesting that any of it should be changed) will get you labelled a "purity pony" faster than you can say Jack Robinson. These top 10%'ers can then claim it wasn't their incessant caving into the Right that caused the bottom 90% to say, "Why vote? No one's addressing the issues I face" and instead blame the hated "purity ponies."

The truth is it is their constant capitulation that gave us Donald Trump. I am the product of the era in which I grew up. No one accused JFK of "pie in the sky" when he suggested we'd land on the moon by the end of the decade. No one thought being an Anti-Fascist was Un-American and no one would claim that we, the United States, would be incapable of doing what every other Western Democracy had long ago done: make sure no one goes bankrupt because a family member got sick. I guess I'm still a purity pony who expects our leaders to work for the betterment of the public and be less concerned with the financial benefits to shareholders.