The US is in a state of immense grid-lock. It is not that the suburbs like ripping me off more than I like being ripped off, it's that everyone has very limited

The US is in a state of immense grid-lock. It is not that the suburbs like ripping me off more than I like being ripped off, it's that everyone has very limited power against an extremely inert status quo. I am not currently involved with efforts to e.g. repeal the mortgage tax deduction, change highway vs public transit funding ratios, institute a land value tax and other things, but I am very involved with https://www.etany.org/ https://www.etany.org/ and peripherally involved with https://opennewyork.org/ https://opennewyork.org/, which ought to change some things. This is the best I can do for now.