At a certain point we have to stop selling them short, and for fuck's sake, stop shrugging at the stupid notion that "America's just not ready for a woman in that job".
The Bystander Effect was pointed up by the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens, NYC.
"I just didn't want to get involved."
-and -
“It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering.”
This "new thing" - Democratic Socialism, or whatever somebody wants to call it - it isn't far left or radical. It's not even new.
It's central to what being an American was always supposed to mean.
It's big ideas and lofty goals - like equal rights, a square deal for everybody, no one is above the law, access to the opportunities necessary for living an honorable life. And many more.
For a couple of centuries, Americans have struggled - they've fought and they've bled and they've died - trying to get "all" to mean all.