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| Topic | "Radical centrists" contribute to the problem of political division |
| Balrog0 06/25/18 1:26:12 PM #45: | Antifar posted... Rapid in they brought about massive changes in quick succession: the abolition of slavery and granting citizenship to black people wasn't a piecemeal, gradual process. It really quite literally was a process that wasn't completed until the civil rights era (and arguably continues to this day) though Antifar posted... Stuff like social security and the WPA was made possible by the Democratic supermajority of the time (and the circumstances under which they came into power); they weren't on the table just a decade earlier. . did the social security act of 1935 really reorganize society? what about all the additions we've made to it over several decades, like adding disability to it, adding dependents, being more inclusive of who is covered by it, etc? is none of that incremental? --- It's one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues . . . allow them a language as lousy as their lives ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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