2 options

One choice is compromise.  Reaching across the aisle.  Recognizing that regardless of whether your Senatorial colleagues are Democrat or Republican, all elected representatives are intelligent people who only want what's best. We learned our lesson 40 years ago after the humiliating defeat after only one term of Jimmy Carter (himself no Democratic Socialist while he was in office certainly), followed by 12 years of Reagan and Bush, Sr, the stewards of our current predicament.   The lesson we can't seem to unlearn: For Democrats, the center is where it's at! 

The tragicomic thing about the Democratic virtue of compromise is that it is always offered up front and it is never reciprocated.  The effect has been a shift into a rightist corporatist fantasyland that is markedly removed from government that meets the needs of most people.  But at least someone is compromising.  It has to start somewhere, right?

One question, though:  who asked for it?  What voter truly thinks, you know what's wrong with political life in America: not enough compromise of my position.  (Hint: No one.)  The Republicans control the demand of this commodity; centrist Democrats have a monopoly on the supply.  The effect is compromise in the worst sense. As in the erosion of value.  As in the exposure of venal motivations of those doing the compromising.

The other choice is a blank slate upon which you are invited to project your dreams.  What more could be said about someone you never heard of 3 months ago who explicitly evades questions of specifics on policy and yet somehow manages to threaten to take the nomination.   We almost always tend to be more creative and bolder in our imaginations than these formless candidates turn out to be in practice, and yet the power of these palimpsests of politics (for voters who are happy just to desire) is quite awesome.  You do not come from nowhere with nothing of substance on the table and win a presidential election unless you have been well groomed for such a role by your starting place, by your life choices and career moves and by your donors, and if this is the kind of candidate you are, you never find yourself in this role by accident.

Sometimes the proliferation of options is not enough.  If these two are anywhere near your top picks, it's time to check your priorities.  Is your number one priority global warming?  Is it medicare for all?  Is it cancelling student debt?  Or is it replacing Donald Trump with more of the same?

There are better choices.