I know it’s not for everyone but I feel like people forget that if you get frustrated with politics these days, you can run for local office and make bigger changes than you think. Every little change helps, especially in a large town to small city where you can do campaigning without significant funding.

I doubt many people have the extra time for it, but if you’re retired or passionate you can make a lot of difference in your local community.

Sorry I am an American and I’m not exactly sure the processes in this subject regarding other countries, but I imagine many are not too different.

  • salacious_coaster@infosec.pubEnglish
    4·
    10 days ago

    There were plenty of ways to make peaceful change. The people responsible did not do them. I wasted way too much of my life trying to change the world one conversation at a time. Human brains are just too susceptible to brute force propaganda. No one person with intelligent arguments can compete with it. There’s no virtue in continuing a hopeless task on principle.

    • foodconsumer@lemmy.worldOP
      21·
      10 days ago

      I agree that it seems hopeless. I’m surrounded by people all day spouting propaganda nonsense talking points with no real attention given to conversations I have with them.

      But nothing will ever change if everyone gives up. I think there is hope.

      Politicians not entirely corrupted by donors are at least mainstream enough to be in the public eye these days, unlike a few years ago. Local exposure to actual reason may be the little push some of these people need to start considering the other side.

        • foodconsumer@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          10 days ago

          Too young to run for anything, sadly

          I don’t think it’s naïve to think that doing anything I can to make change is better than doing nothing and complaining that I’ll never make a change

      • salacious_coaster@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        Giving up hope in a hopeless task is the first step toward putting effort into something realistic. By all means work toward good in the world, but make that effort count. There’s not much we can do about the massive propaganda machine keeping half the US and more elsewhere brainwashed. That’s not our responsibility. Find something you can do.