On Organizing as Citizens

This post went out before intended, but I kinda like the raw pensiveness of it...

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Anti-conservative talking points:

There's not a dime's worth of difference between the parties.

Politics is slimy. Let someone else do it.

It's just a mud-slinging contest. With all the gridlock, why should I bother to be involved?

...and as we concede our involvement, more power centralizes and the citizens are disempowered.



...and as "people" are listened to and organizations and special interests are castigated, citizens are disempowered by losing the power of organizing.

...liberalism/statism wants to take out all the links between people and central government so they are free to run things as they will. Masses without organizations are subject to the charismatic seductions of an elite few.