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In reply to the discussion: Dem leadership will make judicial changes [View all]George II
(67,782 posts)....to Americans back then, they (we) had to fight for it.
Back then people didn't sit behind their keyboards, on their phones, on Twitter or TikTok or Instagram or Twitch sending "memes" and playing video games. They were out in the streets or meeting with (meeting WITH) their legislators, working to make things better for everyone. They didn't refuse to vote because the candidates weren't "pure" enough.
Things weren't the way they are today. There was rampant racial and gender discrimination. Women couldn't get credit cards, or mortgages, or car loans. They couldn't get certain jobs. They were excluded from clubs and organizations. African Americans couldn't rent in certain areas or also couldn't get credit at banks and merchants or get mortgages. Neighborhoods were red-lined.
Thankfully due to the hard work of people decades ago, most of that is gone.
Now, unfortunately, some of the gains of previous generations are threatened because some feel our candidate(s) aren't "pure enough" or "progressive" enough. They either refuse to vote or vote for "protest" candidates, as useless as not voting at all. They smugly stand on "principle" and ideals, while everything that was handed to them and took for granted is going to disappear.