It’s not liberation until it’s for everyone. But we won’t get there in one legislative fight, or even one legislative session, once and for all. It will always need to be fought for.

Conservatives won’t turn down a smaller victory for one that’s out of reach. That’s why they’re winning.

I agree with that but it won’t be a single victory that gets everyone what we need.

We have two different problems. The democratic party as everyone knows, is a feckless bunch. So it must be turned into a viable party once again. But we can’t rehabilitate it and kneecap it at the same time. They also have to win (and then cycle/replace candidates that aren’t with the program.)

The Tea Party did it to Republicans. We have to do it for Democrats… It would also be great to erode resistance to ranked choice voting.

It’s a tall order. We should have been doing it twenty or thirty years ago.

“Ending” slavery, suffrage, the New Deal, income tax, * gay rights… They were all steps to the left.

I’m not arguing that the democratic party as it stands is the vehicle to institute a just and fair society. But I did watch the Tea Party subvert and consume the republicans. It can be done to the democratic party as well. It has to be in tandem with regular wins, like how the conservatives did it.

*I can’t believe I left out Roe v Wade

Winning an election is step one. Policies that benefit everyone (except maybe the very top) is next. Then win the next election and pull the country left. Then rinse and repeat. We didn’t get here overnight.

I get it, but conservatism has taken over by ratcheting the country to the right. They’ve been patiently putting people in positions of power from dog catcher up to the presidency for the last forty years.

Progressives aren’t satisfied with ratcheting the country to the left. It’s all or nothing.

Apparently I’m not up to date. I’ve been impressed by some things and turned off by others. But I haven’t seen any workflows or setups that enabled access to my file system. How is that accomplished, and are there any safeguards around it?