How bad do we let things get? Should we wait until the planet can’t sustain life anymore? Should we wait until it’s 100 degrees F in the Artic? Until wildfires blanket entire continents or the last glacier is gone? Should we wait until fascist billionaires take even more from us? Until there are Flock cameras at every mail box? Maybe we should wait until the wells run dry or the tornadoes never stop. When is it going to be enough? I’m so tired of seeing things getting worse. Every. Single. Day. I’m ready. I’ve been ready. How about you?
How do we coordinate? How do we look after each other? What is the signal? If we don’t work together then we are just continuing our slow march to destruction to the drum of the parasitic billionaires. Please, for us, for the cats, the dogs, the birds and trees. The fish and the whales, the beatles and the centipedes. Please tell me it’s worth it to you, that you’re willing to get uncomfortable, that you’re willing to fight. There are more of us than them, and we are rapidly running out of time to make that mean something.
I like, “Die Ärtzte - Deine Schuld”. Translated the lyrics are “It’s not your fault that the world is how it is; it would only be your fault if it stayed that way.” It gives me a little hope that even if they don’t know what to do, other people feel similarly.
My suggestion to OP would be to collect a few friends and contact your congress people together, mow your elderly neighbors lawn, volunteer somewhere. We need to unite the working class. People who already struggle to eat, won’t ever be ready to discuss the philosophy of social/political change until we give them a hand up Mazlow’s hierarchy of needs. Mamdami is having success in New York by meeting people where they’re at and proving he can do shit by solving neighborhood issues and stuff that affect normal people. Now he has cred with those people.