[lbo-talk] What government spending?

[c b]

No, that's not what the historical record tells us. After the active
minority succeeds, the rest of the population conform to the new
social reality. The majority support is a result of the success of the
political movement, not vice versa.

Miles

^^^^^
CB: That's not what the historical record tells me. In the Civil
'Rights movement , et al. the success was not until the majority came
to support the initiative of the vanguard.  The law was not passed
until the majority pressured their Congress people and other
representatives to change it. Congress did not respond to a minority
of radical activists.  Same with the New Deal or the Civil War.  Only
when the goal of the revolutionary abolitionist movement was supported
by masses in the North did slavery get abolished through war and
Constitutional Amendment.