Yes, incremental reform, the means by which the country has traditionally operated and secured most all of the legislative advances that didn't result from catastrophic wars and economic depressions. You can larf all you like, but this is not ridiculous to the masses of Americans who don't see twitter as the locus of their public life.
Which ultimately prompted civil rights organizations to work to change that both through the courts and by expanding federal authority into what had theretofore been matters of state discretion. For all the racism and sexism and homophobia and etc. in the present day USA, we're not the country we were fifty years ago. I don't see any other way to change a society and culture built upon centuries of white supremacy except incrementally, unless you're talking the inchoate "revolution" that exists in the imaginations of a dinky proportion of the populace.
That's actually Mitch McConnell's full birth name. Went with "Mitch" because it was a nightmare filling out forms.
Your reference to the long process of slavery to Jim Crow to cumulative expansions of civil rights is precisely why incrementalism has been the means of progressive change in this country, not because incrementalism is a positive good in itself (though some argue it is), but because it was the only viable means available.
really? Can you explain the appeal? Because in the scope of a very well qualified field, I just can’t see it.
Think we’ll get that debate in the next round as the field is being whittled down quite rapidly, at least this one is slightly more even than the last.
