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What’s Missing In Our Political Movements Now
Civil Rights Movement vs. Current-Day Climate Movement
America’s Political Movements — Comparing Then and Now
Did political movements of the 1960s and ’70s have deeper roots with longer lasting positive impacts than our 21st century political movements?
How would we define a political movement anyway? Why did the Civil Rights movement achieve many tangible successes but the Climate movement has not? How has the digital age changed political movements?
It’s the first week of December. And all of us have come to terms with what happened on November 5th. 77,236,291 Americans are quite happy. But 74,938,535 unhappy Americans are trying to figure out how to cope with another round of Mr. Trump’s presidency. (Source for popular vote count: Wikipedia, 12/6/24, 10:16 AM, please note: the vote count is still being updated, and, accordingly, changes constantly).
To be sure, this sort of comeback has happened in our history. Grover Cleveland — a Democrat by the way — was our 22nd and 24th President, serving two non-consecutive terms.
But the fact that a presidential comeback has happened before is no solace for Democrats, many of whom are trying to organize politically — to…
