This would make a better point if the current administration wasn’t dismantling the government, stripping rights, and abducting people in the streets.
People may not want to hear this but not everyone is ready to replace the whole system at once and incremental progress is probably the best way to make gains. Revolutions don’t always end with a government based on the ideals that started them.
Incrementalism is a tool of the fascist to prevent actual change. This results in incremental fascism, democrats have said for decades that progress takes time. Yet here we are having the same conversations about wages, income inequality, housing, and basic needs as they did 200 years ago.
I don’t think the current facists in charge are doing it incrementally. You don’t acknowledge any changes or improvements over the last 200 years due to incremental progressivism?
Slavery took a civil war but women’s rights, gay rights, minimum wage, social safety nets (granted not at the level they should be), etc. I’d argue there has been lots of progress. If anything, the last 10 years have shown that getting discouraged by imperfect progress and not voting (even for the lesser evil, who do sometimes surprise us) can lead to very quick backslides. We’ve literally lost rights and baked in harder obstacles to progress by not choosing the lesser evil when that is the only realistic choice. I’m discounting revolution there because again it doesn’t always end how it starts
This would make a better point if the current administration wasn’t dismantling the government, stripping rights, and abducting people in the streets.
People may not want to hear this but not everyone is ready to replace the whole system at once and incremental progress is probably the best way to make gains. Revolutions don’t always end with a government based on the ideals that started them.
Incrementalism is a tool of the fascist to prevent actual change. This results in incremental fascism, democrats have said for decades that progress takes time. Yet here we are having the same conversations about wages, income inequality, housing, and basic needs as they did 200 years ago.
I don’t think the current facists in charge are doing it incrementally. You don’t acknowledge any changes or improvements over the last 200 years due to incremental progressivism?
Slavery took a civil war but women’s rights, gay rights, minimum wage, social safety nets (granted not at the level they should be), etc. I’d argue there has been lots of progress. If anything, the last 10 years have shown that getting discouraged by imperfect progress and not voting (even for the lesser evil, who do sometimes surprise us) can lead to very quick backslides. We’ve literally lost rights and baked in harder obstacles to progress by not choosing the lesser evil when that is the only realistic choice. I’m discounting revolution there because again it doesn’t always end how it starts
That’s the joke. Charlie always tries to kick the football.
I think it misses the point that while previous rhetoric may have been overblown what we are seeing now is at a different level.