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Incremental really is the cornerstone. Every potential opportunity to gain an inch adds to or opens another tranch. No regretting a setback, nothing is ever a devastating loss, everything can add something, every March or rally picks up one or two supporters, a lesson, some intelligence. I've thought the Right to Life campaign over the past 50 years was the best example of the enevitability of incrementalism. Keep plodding away. Never a great gesture or big win all battle. Just keep the masses plowing the field, picking u] a scrap that just might be possibly useful.

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Yes. Whittling away, patience and time. And as education eroded, information is consolidated, and people have less time for engagement (as Unions were weakened and power shifted to employers) they had to work harder and longer for less -the water in the pot heated a little more at a time until it was too late.

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