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Re:The Real Class War by vanusa on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @06:19PM (#21643751)
I've never seen actual grassroots activism accomplish much, if anything.... It's always insiders who make a career out of policy that ultimately shape it.

Did the Vietnam War end because the Washington insiders (who were, if you'll recall, the ones who started it) had a change of heart, got together one day and decided to stop it? Or because the country threatened to become ungovernable if they didn't?

Really, the blithe dismissal of the impact of public protest expressed in your statment is astounding.

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Re:The Real Class War by rout39574 on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @06:51PM (#21643949)
I'm 50, and it'd be a stretch to say I "saw" that happen.

I was in high school before I realized that the Vietnam war had happened while I was alive.

I think the point is that grassroots activism has been effective once upon a time, but has not been effective for decades.

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