You’re average DNC candidate across the board these days.
In defense of small changes, the 2nd term Trump administration is a great example for why it should be difficult to make big changes. Even with the decent guardrail, he is able to completely destroy congressional mandated agencies, implement random tariffs (tariffs are back BTW), use DoJ as personal revenge agency. There should be a small appreciation of what we have today when compared to the last three thousand years of history. Things really can get a lot worse and very quickly.
Do I want Medicaid for all/single payer, yes.
Would I settle for Medicaid for those who want it, definitely.
Whether the gas pedal is lightly tapped or slammed to the metal makes no difference when you’re speeding towards a cliff and both the brakes and steering are cut. Staying in the vehicle is suicide.
Things really can get a lot worse and very quickly.
Things can also get a lot better very quickly. Being against major change because change can be bad is like being against having a big cake because shit can also be big.
Generally I share your sentiment, but just for consideration, I couldn’t so boldly say things can get better very quickly. Can they really?
Does human nature support that, or is major change virtually guaranteed to trigger power struggles and chaos detrimental to the average citizen?
I’m not sure we can objectively assert an answer very confidently.
there is no human nature, existence precedes essence. we first exist, then we decide what the fuck we are.
Decades of incrementalism is precisely how the US got to the spot where Trump has become a viable political figure.
Can’t wait for .world centrists to find this
– assuming that haven’t blocked op already. lol
Who is holding the middle sign?
the market’s semi visible hand
They don’t want you to know
M. C. Escher
Yeah thats the spirit. I for one would love to get some small steps into the right direction. (Which changes all the time, but a step is a step, right? Even if we just walked into the opposite direction)
Open your fucking eyes lol. You’re barreling towards fascism because dems limp dick policies are unpalatable to the base.
The problem is that incremental change is only possible in systems that have room for incremental improvement, and are run democratically. This rules out capitalism entirely.
Aka one step forward, 20 steps back.
Truly, no progress of any sort was ever made in between the 1800s and 2000s in capitalist USA.
We innovated new ways to profit off genocides and put fascists in charge of countries
lol, if anything it’s gotten worse.
“Progress” in what manner, and for who?
8 hr work day from 16 is an improvement. Need more though.
The modern movement originated in the Industrial Revolution in Britain, where industrial production in large factories transformed working life. At that time, the working day could range from 10 to 16 hours, the work week was typically six days, and child labour was common.
Incrementalism did not achieve the 8 hour workday, anarchists and communists throwing bombs did, because power has no reason to compromise unless it is actually threatened.
The shift to the 40 hour work week came alongside 2 critical advancements: organized working classes taking inspiration from successful socialist revolution, and the expansion of imperialism abroad. Devastating working conditions were exported from the global north to the global south in a collective agreement to stop a risk of revolution.
