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Remember What We've Overcome Before Rule. Rights Were Won By Never Giving Up In the Darkest Days
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this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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Support isn't binary, and it's something you can build and increase
Fights like this aren't fully won or lost on short term time scales
I’ve been voting for 25 years and my side has lost a lot more than they won.
Get outta here with your timescales. Americans are racist idiots and I can’t change that.
Keep in mind that as we look at things now, many of Republicans policies are deeply unpopular even among many Republican voters. For instance, Project 2025 has only a 4% approval rating, 57% disapproval
There is a disconnect between what people think they are voting for and what they are actually voting for. It's a launching off point to change things from. Many people really did think he would lower prices. If Trump goes through with plans on steep Tarrifs their support will hardly be so vocal for him
Look at Bush 2004 to - economy crashing - and then Obama 2008
Lets also look at other areas that we tend to think of as linear forms of progress that really weren't - like the civil rights era. There were serious regressions during Jim Crow and things took a long time to get better, but the leaders who made progress didn't give up and were able to get a lot through
The Plessy v Ferguson ruling was in the 1896. The NAACP started going after different underpinnings of it piece by piece in the 1930s. It took until the 1950s for them to start getting serious wins undermining the Plessy ruling - suggesting that it could fully be overturned which it was in 1954
This was a little refreshing to read. I think I can now proceed on with less cautious pessimism :) /s
Though seriously, thanks for getting the information out there, it doesn't hurt to curry a little bit of solace