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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

It. Does. Not. Matter.

The only thing that matters is that those evil centrists were the ones to actually LISTEN... To change the laws. To move the boulder of progress forward.

If it was that easy, then why didn't the southern conservatives get scared into submission?

At the end of the day, MLK Jr., worked with those evil-doer centrist liberals — NOT the conservative southern lynchers and the KKK. If you don't believe me, just overlap a map of modern red states with the confederacy with the 1964 Voting Rights Act YES and NO Votes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

My point is centrists folded because it became ideologically and politically the path of least resitance because civil rights activists, leftists and radicals created those conditions and made ignoring them no longer possible (which is what centrists almost by definition always want to do).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 50 minutes ago (1 children)

And my point is — Why didn't Conservatives of the time fold?

I'm not sure what you think I'm arguing about, but the only thing that matters is that Liberals were the gateway through which progressive activism found a voice. After all, there wasn't a single leftist in Congress at the time.

So thank a liberal for at least being capable of being pressured when a conservative at the time could not be.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago) (1 children)

So thank a liberal for at least being capable of being pressured when a conservative at the time could not be.

Lol that is a ridiculous thing to ask me to thank someone for.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago)

Lol then it's a good thing I wasn't asking!