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57Brave
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A waste of time, money, and energy. Boring. Ineffective.
These arguments against national protest marches appear whenever an organization calls for a major mobilization. On cue, they resurfaced following Dustin Guastella’s proposal in Jacobin for a national Medicare-for-All march.
The Left has deployed this tactic for the past one hundred years, and we should acknowledge that it doesn’t produce direct change.
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The hundreds of thousands who descended on Washington in 1969 didn’t stop the Vietnam War. That happened six years later, when national liberation armies took Saigon. When a million people came to New York to demand a nuclear weapons freeze in 1982, the arms race didn’t end. January’s Women’s March has had no apparent impact on Donald Trump’s presidency.
No organization ever marched right to its goal, because that’s not what marches are for. National mobilizations do not produce results overnight. Instead, they reveal an idea’s influence, decisively changing the national conversation.
Consider, for example, the 1963 March on Washington. We remember it not only for Martin Luther King’s famous speech, but also for the national consensus around the Civil Rights Movement it forged. Until then, citizens debated the movement’s goals, and many felt it represented, at most, a Southern problem. The march broke through that.
Two years later, another march on Washington drew a smaller crowd, but it also changed the course of history. [...]
The peace movement was just starting in the spring of 1965, but the single-payer movement has been growing steadily for decades. Unions as well as public — and, increasingly, private — health-care providers support it.
Most importantly, the Medicare-for-All movement unites the most people while casting a harsh light on the center-to-far right, which wants to deny Americans basic health-care coverage. A successful march could build off the growing feeling of resentment and change the political landscape
Oklahomahawk
Boras' Client
Both spoken well within the purviews of their jobs.
I can Deri-lick my own balls thank you very much. (first Zoolander flick)
Runnin
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Not to be a prude because I'm certainly not, but there was not one good reason to use that language. It completely ruined the point he was trying to make, that Bannon isn't loyal and only using the Presidency to promote himself. But using that language made Scaramucci into the idiot. And this is now your Head of Communications, a guy who can't control his mouth.
The level of ham-fistedness and incapability of these people boggles the mind. You really can't go low enough in underestimated their abilities.
