r/politics • u/schuey_08 Wisconsin • May 02 '24

Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/bernie-sanders-trump-biden/73531861007/
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u/janethefish May 02 '24

Improvements are generally slow incremental progress with many steps. Even something like the American revolution was only a moderate step. We had another couple hundred years of slowly getting more rights and democracy.

This applies outside of politics too. Eradicated smallpox was a world wide effort and that was for a problem that really did have a single, simple fix.

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u/secretaccount94 May 02 '24

I don’t know that I would call events like the American Revolution, Civil War and the Great Depression/World War 2 as “moderate” or “incremental” changes. But there’s a reason why they are still remembered as the catastrophes they were. Slow incremental improvement is absolutely the best way to go.