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There will always be those who shout that progressive legislation doesn't go far enough.

Folks who are one bad tweet away from insisting that incremental progress is somehow worse than no progress at all.

By setting an impossibly high bar for what constitutes "true" progressivism, the purists effectively create a circular firing squad, one in which no one can ever measure up to their exacting standards.

There will always be those who shout that progressive legislation doesn't go far enough.

Folks who are one bad tweet away from insisting that incremental progress is somehow worse than no progress at all.

By setting an impossibly high bar for what constitutes "true" progressivism, the purists effectively create a circular firing squad, one in which no one can ever measure up to their exacting standards.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-perils-of-purity-politics

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Farcaster OG. FID 3305 founder of /theindex 

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Its the tension between different parties / groups that allows middle ground to be found and agreed upon. But when either side gives in too fully to its most extreme voices than rather being a gauge of the outer rim of a movement, it turns into what we have today, purity policing by true believers. What an awful place to find ourselves as a country, world, community. Its no wonder things feel so impossible to achieve, how can you move a majority of any population of scale under these conditions?