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Progressives push forward.
Reactionaries push back.
It never ends until we give up.
So we have to keep pushing forward.
A lot of us liberals and progressives bought into a myth that goes like this: Because of the hard work of our liberal heroes. . .
1/ https://twitter.com/LDYoung42321747/status/1337040048936656903
Reactionaries push back.
It never ends until we give up.
So we have to keep pushing forward.
A lot of us liberals and progressives bought into a myth that goes like this: Because of the hard work of our liberal heroes. . .
1/ https://twitter.com/LDYoung42321747/status/1337040048936656903
. . . like MLK, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Susan B. Anthony etc etc. the evils of the past like slavery and 19th-century paternalism were eradicated.
People born after 1955 inherited (for the first time in American history) an expanding liberal democracy.
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People born after 1955 inherited (for the first time in American history) an expanding liberal democracy.
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Sometimes people who inherit something think they don't have to work for it. They think they are entitled to it.
Wrong.
The anti-democratic forces will never go away. They'll always return for another battle.
They only win when we give up.
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Wrong.
The anti-democratic forces will never go away. They'll always return for another battle.
They only win when we give up.
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People taught history after 1955 often got the sense that the arc of history looks like this
We are in a boat and we don't have to paddle. Without us doing anything at all, the boat will carry us to a better (more diverse, more fair) society.
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We are in a boat and we don't have to paddle. Without us doing anything at all, the boat will carry us to a better (more diverse, more fair) society.
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I adapted this idea from @TimothyDSnyder who talks about how Trump "broke" the story.
In fact, if we keep working hard each generation, the arc of history might look like this
Trump pushed the graph way, way down. But it was sliding down anyway.
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In fact, if we keep working hard each generation, the arc of history might look like this
Trump pushed the graph way, way down. But it was sliding down anyway.
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Whether or not the Democrats win the Senate in January, what we need to do going forward is exactly the same.
I haven't rewritten my "to do" list since the election, but same idea: More civic engagement, particularly at the local level.
https://twitter.com/LDYoung42321747/status/1337040048936656903
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I haven't rewritten my "to do" list since the election, but same idea: More civic engagement, particularly at the local level.
https://twitter.com/LDYoung42321747/status/1337040048936656903
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