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Well, right now it seems to be going the other way around, as we begin to remove and rewrite American history to our liking -- largely exclud9ing slavery and the near genocide of the native American population, Jim Crow, Civil Right and much more.
Furthermore, we need to address why, as a democracy, we voted for an icon for racism, sexism and incompetence; and what that says about where we are at right now. However, we can't seem to agree on the color of shit once it is known that one is engaging with he opposite side. How can we hope to have such grand conversations when we can't even have the most elementary ones?
I think grand conversations are the problem. I heard a theory that whenever the social consciousness changes too much too fast there’s a breaking point where the more conservative people then reject everything. We moved the needle on social consciousness so fast in recent decades that now a lot of the work is being undone. Unfortunately, I think the most effective playbook to follow after this is in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s strategy for expanding women’s rights through many small victories over a very long time.
That is unless the worst happens with the Civil War II and WW3 double whammy. Then all bets are off.
Conservatives litterally torn the country apart because they got told owning humans were a bad thing.
Moved the needle too fast??? We were barely even catching up with the rest of the civilized world.
Also RBG? You can thank her for where we are today.
Yeah it’s bullshit that certain people getting to live normal lives is controversial, and that we can’t just change that, but the left going “too far” is how conservatives feel. Trans people going from mentally ill to respectable and god forbid equal in less than 15 years blows their little minds. Have you talked to them? I have.
Yeah, fuck RGB for dying amiright. No one saw Trump coming, do you know how many seats in the rest of the courts Obama left open? Touch grass.
This distracts heavily from the fact that over the past 40 years the middle class was systematically eroded and people have much less economic security.
Turns out people are against "change" when all the change they experience is being fucked over.
Theres a reason FDR was wildly popular with the people. The great depression really fucked over people, but FDR policies gave the people a lot of new opportunities to pull themselves out of litterally slums while instilling labor rights and helped propelled the next generation into the largest economy booms of all time.
That's interesting. I think this country was built on massively shifting zeitgeist, from the revolution and all the things it has produced that seemed radical at the time like the declaration of independence and the constitution and its initial amendments; to the recent civil rights movement -- especially with movements like the Black Panthers. Major social zeitgeist shifts have been this countries bread and butter since its very origin.
All of which were met with heavy resistance. Also think about the time between the end of slavery and sharing water fountains. You still can’t say Black Lives Matter without an argument. Think about women’s rights. They got the right to vote after black men, and they still don’t have equal rights written into the constitution. Change happens slowly.