We don’t need billions and billions, we need people who care and want to be involved. It takes each person who wants a better outcome to stop letting themselves get distracted by clickbait and emotional stories meant to make you feel things that keep you from wanting to engage and get involved. It takes everyone who wants a better future to get involved in their communities and engaged with local politics. Holy shit we need to get involved in local politics.
Local judges and mayors and governors and the entire city boards who are supposed to serve and represent us. In most places these seats go unchallenged. They support the whole fetid system above them, they are the reason money has been allowed to rape politics and have sent people like Trump to the seat of leadership.
I say again, there are agitators on both sides of every issue right now, trying to amplify every terrible story and bad take, so that it makes us feel overwhelmed and hopeless. I can’t stress this enough, the feeling you have of hopelessness is manufactured. You can trace back where all these feelings come from and find out which meme, which news articles, which chat you read contributed to you feeling like we’re losing everything. It doesn’t make you wrong or stupid, you are human and these systems are tuned to pry open your particular vulnerabilities.
There are some powerful things you can do. You can hold a yard-sale, and get to know your neighbors. Find out their politics, find out who represents you, find out who is involved in your town’s governing, start absorbing gossip and formulating a plan based on what your community cares about most. Find local progressive groups. Volunteer for https://www.progressivevictory.win/ and help them phone bank or other needed work to get the right people elected in key battlegrounds. You can tell your racist uncle at Thanksgiving that he’s going to lose his weed and porn instead of trying to force him to care about social issues or marginalized groups he will never encounter in his life.
Once the leadership changes, the entire attitude of a society changes. The pendulum is always swinging but over the long arc of history, it averages towards progress. We’re on a backslide but it’s far, far from hopeless. We ARE making progress, but we can’t let up and we have to be more clever and more patient.
I agree with most of what you’re saying as sad as it is. The problem is to build a counter propaganda platform takes billions upon billions
We don’t need billions and billions, we need people who care and want to be involved. It takes each person who wants a better outcome to stop letting themselves get distracted by clickbait and emotional stories meant to make you feel things that keep you from wanting to engage and get involved. It takes everyone who wants a better future to get involved in their communities and engaged with local politics. Holy shit we need to get involved in local politics.
Local judges and mayors and governors and the entire city boards who are supposed to serve and represent us. In most places these seats go unchallenged. They support the whole fetid system above them, they are the reason money has been allowed to rape politics and have sent people like Trump to the seat of leadership.
I say again, there are agitators on both sides of every issue right now, trying to amplify every terrible story and bad take, so that it makes us feel overwhelmed and hopeless. I can’t stress this enough, the feeling you have of hopelessness is manufactured. You can trace back where all these feelings come from and find out which meme, which news articles, which chat you read contributed to you feeling like we’re losing everything. It doesn’t make you wrong or stupid, you are human and these systems are tuned to pry open your particular vulnerabilities.
There are some powerful things you can do. You can hold a yard-sale, and get to know your neighbors. Find out their politics, find out who represents you, find out who is involved in your town’s governing, start absorbing gossip and formulating a plan based on what your community cares about most. Find local progressive groups. Volunteer for https://www.progressivevictory.win/ and help them phone bank or other needed work to get the right people elected in key battlegrounds. You can tell your racist uncle at Thanksgiving that he’s going to lose his weed and porn instead of trying to force him to care about social issues or marginalized groups he will never encounter in his life.
Once the leadership changes, the entire attitude of a society changes. The pendulum is always swinging but over the long arc of history, it averages towards progress. We’re on a backslide but it’s far, far from hopeless. We ARE making progress, but we can’t let up and we have to be more clever and more patient.