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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders: Here is What Could Be Fixed by the Taxes on Apple's Offshored Profits [View all]appalachiablue
(41,138 posts)intelligence and conviction to find a way around the Dem. establishment blockage, focus on an agenda and assemble people to act. A recent well done PBS documentary on The March of 1963 illustrated how leaders and associates didn't receive clearance until 8 weeks before the event, yet the ground teams and contacts worked the phones sometimes 24/7 in that short period to arrange for the several hundred thousand people who came. The workings of the Civil Rights movement for that occasion was incredibly inspiring.
Much credit for that historic action goes to the dedicated work done decades in advance by leaders, and the many involved from church leaders, teachers, civil rights activists, students, the important black press at that time and even Belafonte who brought in well known actors.
This country is in such as state of systemic dysfunction and one nasty law and shocking event occurring after another but there have to be enough people aware, willing and able to change the direction. Never known for organization, the left must amend that and create structure, clarity and unity. Perhaps not another Selma but serious measures and commitments to stave off what the result will be if we don't. And that's fairly clear to anyone who knows history or has seen major inequality and deprivation in other countries.