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We’re at a moment in time where radical change is necessary *because* those in power refused to make incremental change over the last 20 years. That’s as true on minimum wage as it is on climate.
We could have slowly increased min wage over the past 20 years, but those proposals were blocked at every turn, mostly by GOP and corporate interests. Now we need to double it overnight which is exponentially harder.
We could have decarbonized gradually but those proposals were blocked at every turn for going on 40 years now. Now we need to decarbonize in a decade, which is exponentially harder.
It’s not that today’s progressives are “radical” it’s that they’ve been handed a pile of shit created by decades of inaction and total dereliction of duty when it comes to the government working for individual citizens and not just corporate citizens.
So yes, proposals of incremental change now are ridiculous. Proposing solutions now that would have actually worked 20 years ago are ridiculous. It’s radical change or radical failure, that is the situation we’ve all been placed in by the radically self-interested few
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