I wish we could all just agree on a few basics and do it. Like, can we support unions and do mutual aid? Yeah, it's not nearly enough to fix all our problems, but it's a start. Maybe it will help bring about anarcho syndicalist trotskyist solarpunk feminism, and maybe it won't, but it's a start.

[–] WammKD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I haven't figured out how to channel it into convincing others, yet (though I haven't done a lot of activism for, like, going on a decade now), but I have been having the thought, for the last 4 years, that focusing on tangible goals could really help us.

Just seeing the Republicans turn half a century of steadfast obsession into actually overturning Roe has me thinking we need material results fast.

Because, if the one constant for our side since the 60s has been anything, it's been a slow erosion at our ability to even effect change.

I feel like even the need for lockstep consensus to work together wouldn't be so direly needed if we had rank-choice voting and a dismantling of the two party system.

To use your union example, more unions mean a slow of concentration of wealth which means less influence for the wealthy upon our society including more stability so there's less desperation to vote for a Hail Mary solution like thinking Trump ever gave a single care about the price of eggs.

Just…really concentrating on tangible goals and carving out progress on them.

Of course, we'd need your aforementioned agreement, for that…