Cop out. There is an old quote, my eleventh-grader friend, that says "Never make the perfect the enemy of the possible." What that means, my high-school chum, is that you should never let the lack of perfection be an obstacle to incremental progress.
Cop out???? The only cop out I see is coming from you in admitting that you will never reach your "perfect world", but wish to bash those who are trying to negotiate the mine field called American politics, rather than trying to help and support them.