I'm thinking the only way forward is building an alternative power structure to electoral politics that bullies the politicians around. Corporations and money c

I'm thinking the only way forward is building an alternative power structure to electoral politics that bullies the politicians around. Corporations and money control the government - it's a truism at this point. Place that which controls the government under democratic control and you have a democracy. So either building organized labor power within existing corporations or starting entirely new democratically-run cooperative companies to outcompete existing corporations. People want to keep politics separate from work, but this seems like nonsense to me. Reductively, politics revolves around who does the work, who pays the costs of that work, and who receives the benefits from that work. To separate politics from work when politics is about work is to throw away the greatest power you have - your contribution to the world through work. Voting every few years is so unimaginably paltry compared to using your economic output to have a say. People have this idea that cooperatives are inefficient, but ensuring profits stay within the company instead of being extracted off to people who had no hand in its creation is a burden they do not share. Microsoft spends $250k/employee/year on dividends and stock buybacks for shareholders. If this idea sounds interesting read the book Democracy at Work.