Howard Dean (Tweet): I May Have to Become an Independent

[Bucky]

88. Women's suffrage, women's rights, various civil rights movements, labor empowerment

In each of these areas there were a series of partial and insufficient progress made in the halls of Congress or among the state governments before the hallmark achievements that we make big anniversaries out of. Fights had to be won within party caucuses first before they could be won in Congress. Before women got the vote in 1920, they were allowed to vote in certain elections (like school boards) in many states where they couldn't vote for Congress. The Equal Pay Act was passed in the early 1960s, but it was only the first in many laws it took to move women toward economic equity in the workplace--a process that is still ongoing and far from complete, but an area in which very real and tangible progress cannot be denied. Civil rights for minorities is the classic example of progress by gradualism, going from emancipation to anti-lynching laws to desegregation to right-to-vote laws to affirmative action to whatever the next struggle will be... hopefully ending discrimination in financial services industry. Labor movement's menue of 8 hour days, minimum wages, safe working conditions, right to organize, right to strike, etc also came in fits and starts, seeing times of progress and times of regress, but overall it's gotten better.

Am I saying "anything at all" yet?