I've supported BLM since the beginning, and I support Bernie now. Here's some thoughts...

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3. Saw the same thing(s) in eco-organizing in the 80's

We almost had a head start on getting people to think about global warming, for example, but the more "radical" groups in the environmental movement at the time were ultimately infiltrated (to a certain degree), as well as being routinely monitored, etc.

And of course this was right before the internet, so media was even easier to manipulate (you could make a bigger splash with a protest then -- but if you made too many "splashes," pushback was guaranteed, so the narrative could be changed "back," so to speak...)