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In reply to the discussion: So Ocasio-Cortez has not even taken office, and she's already planning [View all]libdem4life
(13,877 posts)She carries a big load for her age and I want her to succeed. She's going to need and/or develop outsized capabilities.
Upon more contemplation ... Sometimes it takes earthquakes to get people to know their next door neighbors...spoken as a 5 decade Californian. Or hurricanes, or tornadoes...depending on your state/region. It has been said that progress often requires a jarring or devastating event. Our own national history, as taught in schools, is divided into sections determined by wars...The American Revolution to Civil War...Civil War to WWI, etc. or cultural events, such as the Depression, Women's Suffrage and the Civil Rights movement. It's seldom marked by periods of peace and prosperity and good will.
Look at MLK and those years and the struggle...scoffed at and reviled by most, at the start. For women, it's taken 100 years. I lived the Vietnam War Era...we got coined The Boomers, defined by our birth dates circa WW II. Everyone knows where Kent State is located, and that was mostly white folks.
So, before we demand purity and peace and patience of this new group of legislators, who are the leaders that will define the next generation and perhaps generations to come...perhaps we could look at cutting them a lot of slack and lend our maturity, as best we can, to their fire in the belly.