re: #83 Jay C

And if not him, I’m sure the media (the RW blogosphere first, followed up by Fox, then gradually the “MSM”) will be only too happy to conduct and air a great number of blaring “exposés” about the malodorous “radical” connections of the #womensmarch organizers, Just as a public service, of course….

Sadly, the answer to those questions are likely to be “No” and “makes no difference”. Once a “movement” *gets tarred with the taint of its worst elements, it will be all that will be talked about.

*mainly on the Left: but can happen with any “extremes”, viz. Charlottesville.

Here’s the flip-side, and I’m seeing it here: We’re going to shoot ourselves in the foot with this: People are going to go on about how this is damaging, saying that it will destroy the movement, and will because people will sit there and go on about how it is damaging and not do anything.

There’s no reason for a movement to get tarred by the flawed people who lead it, otherwise the following things would be failures:
1. Democracy (slavery)
2. Civil Rights (adultery)
Yeah, I tend to pull a Rick Perry and get stuck at two.

The point being, the left doesn’t have to let these things fail. There are flawed people. It shouldn’t stop us. The things needing to be changed are larger than the individuals.