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> If none exist, consider running yourself. Setting expectations of "don't like it? Well quit your job, give up 12 mo of your life to campaign and fix it yours
by itake 6y ago
> If none exist, consider running yourself.
Setting expectations of "don't like it? Well quit your job, give up 12 mo of your life to campaign and fix it yourself!" is not healthy for our society.
- optimiz3 6y agoThe recursion in how one would effect change like this amuses me. But this is by design since policy affects all.
- throwaway2048 6y agoat a certain level, somebody has to think like that, otherwise nobody except power hungry psychopaths would be in politics. Direct action matters, and to dismiss it as "not my responsibility" is shirking the entire point of democracy.
- mondoshawan 6y agoAnd yet, this is how our system works. We all need to participate and realize that politics is not a career -- it is part of living in such a system, and a part of our responsibility as citizens. The only way we are going to fix things is if we fix it ourselves. I have tried in the past as well. Political apathy is a very real, very dangerous vulnerability in our system of government, and is being exploited all the time.
- Jeff_Brown 6y ago> The only way we are going to fix things is if we fix it ourselves. The word "we" is pulling a lot of weight in that statement. All politics suffers a free rider problem. We'll fix it if we fix it, sure, but I don't have to be part of that.
- simion314 6y agoCould you start small? if you live in a smaller city/village do you need to quit your job for 1 year to attempt to get a sit in the council?
- Jeff_Brown 6y agoPressuring your representatives to do something about it, and helping others get mad about it too, and encouraging them to encourage their representatives likewise, is probably the most bottom-up response possible. It can do enormous good, but of course can also go nowhere.