Every movement fails. Until it succeeds.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

I have friends on both sides of the Bernie-Hillary divide. And tonight on Facebook, they’re all posting articles that give the edge to their favored candidates, articles that anticipate alternative—and conflicting—futures. And that is as it should be. Politics is not a science of representing reality exactly as it is (that is, uni-dimensionally). It is an art that sees reality in all its flux, a mode of judgment that identifies multiple paths and possibilities, a mode of action that presses harder on some of those possibilities
—pushes further along some of those paths—than others. Not because they’re more probable but because they’re more desirable. Which is why I have so little patience with the armchair strategists in the media, those political meteorologists who spend their days forecasting the future, who tell you there’s no point in voting for a candidate because there’s no way he or she can win, as if the end is a fact of nature rather than a choice of citizens. Or their counterparts in the electorate, those anxious realists who demand that you lay out the path for them, assure them of the destination, before they even take a step. Oh, to know the end of the day ‘ere the day is done! The fact is: Every movement fails. Until it succeeds. And then, when it does, everyone says, of course it succeeded, it had to succeed. No, actually, it didn’t have to succeed. But what made it succeed—or at least helped it succeed—was that men and women, for a time, shook off the need for certitude, let go of the bannisters of certainty, remembered that they are not scientists, and put themselves into motion. Without knowing where they’d end up.

http://coreyrobin.com/2016/02/02/every-movement-fails-until-it-succeeds/

[forest444]

1. As a wise man once said:

[DanTex]

2. I'm hoping the anti-abortion movement continues to fail. Which is why we need HRC.

Same goes for the movement to privatize Social Security. In fact, the whole GOP agenda.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

3. To paraphrase Stephen Colbert,

"reality has a well-known progressive bias." I think the point of the opinion expressed in the OP is that progressive movements regarding abolition, unions, universal suffrage, Jim Crow, Viet Nam, LGBT and gender equality all took risk and sacrifice.

[mhatrw]

4. Clinton is Blockbuster. Sanders in Netflix. This will be obvious to everyone soon enough.

The 0.1% can't get away with this forever. We don't need their trickle down, but we won't keep letting them vacuum up.