First, that was absolutely the plan when they started shifting the Overton window in the 1980s. They didn’t realize how important good faith is to democracy, and it’s gotten more out of hand than they intended. Now you’ve got Dick Cheney, Rex Tillerson, and other 80s Republicans trying to rein it in.
Second, compromise goes both ways. Our agenda doesn’t have to go out of the window. The neolibs will give the kids free school lunches to help defeat fascism. This doesn’t mean that we try to jerk the Overton window so far the other way that it breaks and we lose to fascists. We can both compromise in good faith.
Third, those Republicans always think results are instant. Fire employees and if things don’t break in a month, then they were clearly right! And when things go to shit in two years, well, there must be another reason. Don’t make the same mistake with progressive changes. We need more than a 50/50 senate split with West Virginia included to be able to make big changes. Results aren’t instant, and don’t give up when they’re not.
And in red states which have abandoned workers, Chuck Schumer always campaigns for the pro-trump Democrat instead of the candidate with the energy behind them. Gotta lose all the fucking dinosaurs that keep causing losses.
The thing that really sucks is that to a lot of voters, results are instant. Every time the price of anything goes up, it’s the current presidents fault. Seen all those “I Did That!” Stickers idiots put on gas pumps? It makes no sense when you’re talking on an economic scale for things to suddenly shift overnight, or even in 2-4 years. But a huge bump in inflation from companies trying to capitalize on economic changes through covid? Ope, bidens fault.
There are so many political schemes that take advantage of the “right now” results, even if those results are from years of changes and slow effect activity. I wish I could get people to see that not every little thing that happens is because someone in govt went to the “magic number machine” and moved the sliders up or down that morning.
There’s a lot of caveats to that.
First, that was absolutely the plan when they started shifting the Overton window in the 1980s. They didn’t realize how important good faith is to democracy, and it’s gotten more out of hand than they intended. Now you’ve got Dick Cheney, Rex Tillerson, and other 80s Republicans trying to rein it in.
Second, compromise goes both ways. Our agenda doesn’t have to go out of the window. The neolibs will give the kids free school lunches to help defeat fascism. This doesn’t mean that we try to jerk the Overton window so far the other way that it breaks and we lose to fascists. We can both compromise in good faith.
Third, those Republicans always think results are instant. Fire employees and if things don’t break in a month, then they were clearly right! And when things go to shit in two years, well, there must be another reason. Don’t make the same mistake with progressive changes. We need more than a 50/50 senate split with West Virginia included to be able to make big changes. Results aren’t instant, and don’t give up when they’re not.
And in red states which have abandoned workers, Chuck Schumer always campaigns for the pro-trump Democrat instead of the candidate with the energy behind them. Gotta lose all the fucking dinosaurs that keep causing losses.
The thing that really sucks is that to a lot of voters, results are instant. Every time the price of anything goes up, it’s the current presidents fault. Seen all those “I Did That!” Stickers idiots put on gas pumps? It makes no sense when you’re talking on an economic scale for things to suddenly shift overnight, or even in 2-4 years. But a huge bump in inflation from companies trying to capitalize on economic changes through covid? Ope, bidens fault.
There are so many political schemes that take advantage of the “right now” results, even if those results are from years of changes and slow effect activity. I wish I could get people to see that not every little thing that happens is because someone in govt went to the “magic number machine” and moved the sliders up or down that morning.