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25. I was there.

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John Kennedy was inspiring (OK, I'm originally from Massachusetts).
And his campaign had a cute song.
Bobby Kennedy was a dynamo, and Dr. King was electrifying. They inspired and empowered us.

Naturally, their losses were horrible, but we didn't just go in mourning for the next 30 years.

Theirs was, in my opinion, the SECOND emancipation in the U.S., and drew all the racist-fueled backlash we have seen since then from the RW.

Joe Biden has the potential, if we give him the support he needs, I call it "54 or more" (52's too few but might do), to reverse the reversal --- as a friend used to say a lot "activate the deactivator" -- and bring about the third emancipation.

Hearts and minds? Hardly. Just get enough people to get off the sewage truck (it really DOES stink) to win.
Hence the prods and "nudges" in my post. I studied cult behavior and addictive behaviors. Most have to hit rock bottom, but people not horribly deluded can break out based on a perceived betrayal, or contradiction that denial (a key behavior) just can't cover any more. There's a plan to the message.

Quote from Ibram X. Kendi. He "gets it."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216524810

Oh here:
One paragraph fom the epilogue of "Stamped From the Beginning", by Ibram X Kendi.
Emphasis mine:

Protesting against racist power and succeeding can never be mistaken for seizing power. Any effective solution to eradicating American racism must involve Americans committed to antiracist policies seizing and maintaining power over institutions, neighborhoods, counties, states, nations—the world. It makes no sense to sit back and put the future in the hands of people committed to racist policies, or people who regularly sail with the wind of self-interest, toward racism today, toward antiracism tomorrow. An antiracist America can only be guaranteed if principled antiracists are in power, and then antiracist policies become the law of the land, and then antiracist ideas become the common sense of the people, and then the antiracist common sense of the people holds those antiracist leaders and policies accountable.

DON'T KVETCH, KICK BUTT!. ... Guy Kawasaki.

Any time spent griping about things you and I can't control or influence takes away from things you CAN influence, namely ELECTIONS. That's the purpose of disinformation: to disempower you by focusing on people, and things you can't possibly control or even influence. And when that happens, they have won.