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Nope. Relying on political operatives to faithfully represent our interests is how we got into this mess in the first place.
I already voted. I’m just not pretending that we get to have any influence over who we get to vote for.
Follow a historical example like the Black Panthers. If your community has an unmet need, serve it and use it as an opportunity to organize your neighbors.
Nothing threatens the structure of power more than the existence of organized groups of people who don’t depend on it.
Please explain to me slowly because I have never read a political science book of any kind: how does threatening power structures through personal independence stop the Palestinian genocide?
Even without directly opposing the State, the mere existence of alternative power structures poses an existential threat to it.
For just one small example, having fewer desperate people means there will be fewer volunteers for military service, making recruitment more expensive and sapping the budget available for foreign military aid.
Fewer military volunteers also means fewer people indoctrinated into the military mindset, further reducing support for military adventurism.
For another, organized people who work together to solve common problems are also more likely to recognize the shared humanity of those whom the State has declared to be enemies. It’s hard to sell a genocide to the voters when they understand that they have much more in common with the victims than their own political leaders.