You say that unironically, as though there aren't "strong governments" in the world that behead gay and trans people, or even just women who have been victims o

You say that unironically, as though there aren't "strong governments" in the world that behead gay and trans people, or even just women who have been victims of rape. You can have a meaningful impact on a community. It'll take time and effort, but you can actually have an impact. You can be the one who welcomes the rejected, who opens your house to the down and out, who shows people that love isn't something to fear. You can't affect your national government. If you get exceptionally lucky, you might be able to get sucked up by some political party as their knighted figurehead, but that only happens because you happen to agree with their agenda, not because you're the individual agent of change. I will gladly take the community of people who actually know each other and solve their problems together over the "strong government" every single day of the week and twice on Sundays.