I totally get where you’re coming from, regarding political parties. The ones in power (whether the Dems or GOP here in the US or Labour and Tories there), tend to not be very representative of the electorate and as such, you have large groups of people who feel alienated from the political system. I think that even if you weren’t burnt out or not living with a disability, or presented as “normal” by our cultural standards, you’d still have a hard time making any head way in advocating for changes. The media here and there are so invested in maintaining the status quo, that you really have to make some noise to get any attention when you’re advocating for any major changes. Few people have any faith in the system any more to actually be responsive and do ANYTHING PRODUCTIVE at all and I think that’s true across the spectrum.
I don’t know… we’ve been told that the internet will change all of this, open up new democratic, people to people spaces, and yet it doesn’t seem that way, does it. You still have the problem of spaces being corporate enough to crack down on any productive dissent and the mass media still misrepresents anything that doesn’t fit within the mainstream narrative. Spaces for hashing out alternatives seem few and far between, as we all end up in these internet walled gardens, which often have very specific demographics and I think causes more divisions than useful political conversations. Just look at how political threads fall apart around here - so imagine the rest of the internet.
So, I don’t know how to build up alternatives, with the way things are right now. There seem to be spaces, but they tend to be less useful in translating change to real life.
And I think this is a great and necessary conversation to have, if only for the sake of catharsis.
