a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment
oyster  ·  2718 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn’t About Hillary Clinton

Huge changes aren't going to happen quickly, especially not to things that America has a long history of doing. I mean you guys legalized gay marriage across your country very recently. If you look back in history pretty much every champion of social progress was also a total dickweed in some way, Martin Luther King was sexist ffs.

So she probably won't make huge strides but she'll work with the system to make the changes she can. She knows how to get at least something within a shit system even if it isn't ideal. Throwing somebody else in there with big ideas who couldn't work the system would be useless. The political system in American is reflective of the society it governs, if people want it to change then they actually have to take opportunities to change society. You don't change the politics before society, not in a democracy at least.