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In reply to the discussion: I posted some things two years ago about Kamala Harris that were I shouldn't have. [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)All that would've happened by now is that the drinking fountains would be desegregated on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with religious exemptions for the fountains at Bob Jones University.
They pushed for big change the whole time. So did labor, when unions were actually winning. So did feminists. So does the LGBTQ rights movement. All compromised, but none let go of the transformative vision-at least not when those movements were actually effective.
We have to push for big change to get ANY change-especially since next to nobody on the Right is ever willing to compromise(the GOP senators that joined our senators in defying Trump on healthcare did so only because of mass pressure from below.
Small changes, tiny increments, rarely if ever make any meaningful difference in anyone's lives.
BTW...since you've brought up West Virginia continually-for the record, I wasn't involved with the idea of primarying Manchin-the governor of West Virginia, the kind of Dem you keep insisting is the only kind that can win in a state like that, is switching parties today. Doesn't that suggest to you that there may be some flaws in the "it's enough to elect somebody who CALLS himself a Democrat" strategy? And is there any reason to believe Manchin won't do the same thing sometime soon?