My world is inhabited by a number of Hillary skeptics - I'm one of them - but something she said in that encounter with a Black Lives Matter activist made enormous sense, and it goes to the heart of why politics, the best politics, is so important.
Yes, we need protest.
Yes, we need movements.
We need, yes, a shift of hearts and minds.
But at the end - as MLK, Jr, knew so well - politicians must vote, laws must change, systems must adapt.
Or we just talk, again and again.
“I don’t believe you change hearts,” Mrs. Clinton says. “I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate.”
And on the road to that moment you need a message that resonates, that sells:
".....in politics, if you can’t explain it and you can’t sell it, it stays on the shelf.”
And if it dies on the shelf, all the talk and all the marches won't change the world.
Politics can.
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