From my perspective, those are two great things (um, slight exaggeration on national voting end since the larger the pool of voters the lower the impact of any one vote). But without community action, they’re very limited.
Not to drag anarchists into this conversation but they have effectively shown how much can be done for members of a community by members of a community. We’ve lost so many of our safety nets over the past 40 years. One of our biggest needs is community organizing.
But it needs to come from inside the communities or at the very least with a lot of humility and a focus on listening rather than assuming what is needed or what will work.
Activism in terms of advocacy is great … but it’s limited if so many voices suffering because of our current systems are effectively silenced by the situations our society has put them in.
