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Incrementalism is a belief system adopted by progressive people that are more afraid of change and happier with the status quo than they care to admit.

When you read the constitution, do you also ask yourself "What we the people"?

Incrementalism is a belief system adopted by progressive people that are more afraid of change and happier with the status quo than they care to admit.

People who are desperate to ignore the facts try so hard to make it about the messenger, not the message.

Olivier5 wrote:

Incrementalism is a belief system adopted by progressive people that are more afraid of change and happier with the status quo than they care to admit.

There's not a day that goes by where I don't scream at god for inventing language. "What a way to screw everything up, you jerk" is the complaint.

As to incrementalism, one can observe that it is precisely how major social movements have advanced. [...] MLK wasn't stupid about this. Mandela wasn't either. Likewise, women's suffrage.

Calls for immediate change - the rejection of incrementalism - come from people of real passion and sincerity and, usually, good faith intentions. But this is also the sector of our populations from where the wild-eyed crazies tend to emerge. Neo-nazis aren't incrementalists.

The thing is, just because the enemy is for radical change in the wrong direction, doesn't disqualify radical change in the right direction.

Russia has formally adopted a law that gives its government more control over its domestic internet.

The law means the systems that exchange data between the networks forming the Russian internet must share more information with government regulators.

It also lets regulators exert direct control over what Russians can post, see and talk about online when national security is threatened.

Russian net firms have until 1 November to comply with the law.

Widespread protests were mounted in a bid to stop the law being passed.

The legislation is part of a long-running plan within Russia to rely less on networks outside the country to help data reach its destination.

Instead, Russia wants traffic sent between its citizens to stay inside its cyber-borders instead of travelling across international networks, over which it has less control.

To help with this project, Russia is also working on developing its own net address books so it can operate almost autonomously, although this work will not take effect until 2021.

Eventually, the Russian government wants all domestic traffic to pass through routing points over which it has close oversight.

The Putin government has said the law is needed because of ongoing threats from many nations to retaliate over Russian meddling in elections and politics.

Analysis published early in 2019 suggested the law was part of an effort to set up a mass censorship system similar to that operated in China, which tries to scrub out chat about controversial subjects.

Russia has also recently passed laws that ban "disrespect" of the government. Repeat offenders who are blatant in their criticism of the state, its officials and Russian society could face up to 15 days in jail.

Radical change through personal risk is the only possible solution when your enemy is more powerful than you are.

The disqualification was a crushing turn of events for Maximum Security trainer Jason Servis and jockey Luis Saez, who already had begun celebrating what they thought were their first Derby victories.

Instead, previously undefeated Maximum Security was dropped to 17th of 19 horses for veering out turning for home and stacking up War of Will, Long Range Toddy and Bodexpress (also owned by the Wests), according to Barbara Borden, chief steward of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission. Country House, in turn, was brushed by Long Range Toddy.

Rep. David N. Cicilline (D-R.I.), a member of the committee, said on Fox News Sunday that the special counsel and the panel had reached a tentative agreement for his testimony.

The committee has been seeking to hear from Robert S. Mueller III amid disagreements about whether Attorney General William P. Barr mischaracterized the report in his congressional testimony and statements.