Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "What Should New Leftists Do? A Guide." video.

  1.  @angrychickenyt  a troll???
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  2. But I wanna hear about the evils of geo-restriction!! Dammit!
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  3. 100%. We can talk about theory all we want but what matters is bringing positive change in our communities. Only running for some sort of level office no matter how small will make that happen. We all have to start somewhere. So get together with other leftists, draw up a Bible of all the changes you'd like to see in your community, no matter how many seam too impossible at this point in time, and write down step by step how you'd like to get there, and then see what kinds of local offices in your community are available. You can always try running for city council although of course that's a little stickier because those are usually funded by the big money but hey, who cares?? If we never challenge them we'll never get in. We have to take part in the currently existing political process otherwise we're just twiddling our thumbs. Nothing will change otherwise.
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  4.  @angrychickenyt  stop trolling you're being dumb.
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  5. For those of us ready to do more, we should be trying to get into local politics one way or the other. Jonathan is right. Everything else is nice, but won't change anything at the public policy level. Get involved in your local city or town management any way you can, or at least strive to. Maybe you think you're too young for that but for anyone who's 35+, I would seriously advocate this. This is what I'm working on at the moment. Start with writing out in extreme detail all of the very specific tangible changes you would like to see in public policy, even if some seem impossible to accomplish in our lifetime. Just organize these points and break them down into smaller and smaller pieces that if given the opportunity you believe you could take some small steps towards. (Examples, better urbanism, better social programs, rights for the homeless, better homeless services, public space rights, tax policy change, refunding our schools, homeowner protections, police reform and reduced funding, bans on all patrols (911 response is all they should be doing), decriminalization of drugs, criminal justice reform, food policy reform, rent control and housing reform, zero goods waste programs, local ubi, better healthcare services, community gardening initiatives, etc etc) For anyone in or around LA I would highly recommend getting involved with the people's city council. They are an absolutely fantabulous alternative to their pretty much hypersociopathic and corrupt local "actual" council full of bought and paid for hyperdicks. In short if you really want to change public policy in our cities, towns, or counties we have to get on the councils. This can be easier said than done because the police apparatus and the big business sector will always want to control these individuals by funding their campaigns and giving them favors. But it's not impossible. We have to try. As much as we may fantasize about some great noble movement bubbling up from the outside unfortunately at least in the US that is just not going to happen. We have to try to get ourselves into public office and even that's no guarantee we'll be able to get the changes we want because of course the red-blue machine controls pretty much everything but what I'm saying is if we don't try, it's definitely not going to happen. We can also try to force through ballot measures that we believe in. It will always be a steep uphill battle because we don't have the money to buy media advertising the way they do but like I said, we just have to try. Here in CA I'd like to try reaching out to other outside parties in the areas that we agree on. The more hands on deck the better. It's a long-term process, but not entirely impossible. Otherwise there are always many many private mutual aid organizations that do a lot of fine work and those are by no means unimportant. But if we do want to seek at least even modest political changes we're going to have to try to get into some of these offices ourselves. I know it won't be easy but if people from the Left or the outside never try, voters never get a chance to choose anything outside of the status quo of the red-blue paradigm.
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