Sure I understand politics. At election time, I read the party platforms and check polling. That way I can can strategically vote based on the candidate that has the highest probability of enacting policies that I want. Though sometimes I vote to prevent a candidate that’s regressive. Repeat for every election.
Sometimes I’ll write to my representative. Sometimes I’ll go to party meetings, do some phone banking.
Progress is slow, but when you actually care about the issues you can achieve progress by voting in as many elections as it takes to get there.
Next month the bus route I take will only charge one fare instead of two. It’s a whole stupid thing, don’t even ask.
Given that it tends to be the working class that takes the bus, this helps the working class in a small way. If everyone put effort into making small local changes we could achieve even more.
So yeah fixing bus fares doesn’t sound like much, but I think it’s far more help to the working class where I live than internet socialists have ever done. Too busy dreaming about some future socialist revolution that will solve all problems to make things better now. In fact I think that future revolution thing is mostly just an excuse to not make an effort to improve things now.
Sure I understand politics. At election time, I read the party platforms and check polling. That way I can can strategically vote based on the candidate that has the highest probability of enacting policies that I want. Though sometimes I vote to prevent a candidate that’s regressive. Repeat for every election.
Sometimes I’ll write to my representative. Sometimes I’ll go to party meetings, do some phone banking.
Progress is slow, but when you actually care about the issues you can achieve progress by voting in as many elections as it takes to get there.
Next month the bus route I take will only charge one fare instead of two. It’s a whole stupid thing, don’t even ask.
Given that it tends to be the working class that takes the bus, this helps the working class in a small way. If everyone put effort into making small local changes we could achieve even more.
So yeah fixing bus fares doesn’t sound like much, but I think it’s far more help to the working class where I live than internet socialists have ever done. Too busy dreaming about some future socialist revolution that will solve all problems to make things better now. In fact I think that future revolution thing is mostly just an excuse to not make an effort to improve things now.
Do you even vote?