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In reply to the discussion: Democrats need to wake the hell up. These are manufactured GOP scandals based on lies. [View all]1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I have suffered, personally, and still see many that suffer.
I was born into a family of Civil Rights warriors, in a time where standing up was very likely to get you dead. I suspect (based on your comments and comport) I was fighting the Civil Rights War before you were in long pants. And have been actively engaged in fighting the fight to this day.
From that experience, I learned that pie-eyed activity rarely results in anything other than "moral victories", i.e., principled losing, that does little to advance one's cause, or the ones one seeks to help; but gives great comfort to those fight, and losing, the "good fight."
Those of us that actually have fought in the trenches, in the streets and stood the line (literally, rather than by posting on an anonymous bulletin boards), know that progress is slow and steady; but only comes in increments.
The rest is all Bull Shit.