Barack Obama thinks 'woke' kids want purity. They don't: they want progress

Incrementalism works well for reactionaries. Reagan began the project to tear down America back in 1981, and to this day, nearly all of that damage has not been repaired. Conceding to reactionary policies and taking a few symbolic baby steps forward has done nothing but entrench the new Reagan America and its oligarchy in power while discouraging normal people from bothering to participate in elections.

We must move boldly forward now -- to reclaim progress destroyed and to begin to achieve real progress. We must be like Teddy Roosevelt or Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson or the next round of discouragement will turn this nation into something like China.

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