Reply #10: Here's what I think about incrementalism

[EstimatedProphet]

Sometimes it's destructive, such as in the civil rights issues. At the same time, sometimes it's necessary that lasting change is incremental. For example, I think that half of the opposition to Bush in this country came from the way he simply assumed he could do whatever he wanted, so he instituted his policies and said screw you to anyone who didn't like them. Given the mood of the country as it is now, unfortunately I think a lot more people would have been on board for even the worst of his policies if he were more gradual in implementing them. What that may mean for us is that, if we want lasting change in the way we as a country do things, we may be able to achieve it only through an incremental approach.