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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sorry but the delusion that voting will solve the world's issues and being mad at people who have zero power is very weird to me. You should be mad at billionaires, corrupt systems, unchecked money in politics and big donors shaping everything, the fact that there is no universal health care, the fact that so many Americans can barely afford to feed their children, that we could solve the climate change issue and world hunger but people in power prevent this from happening. [b]Redirect your energy[/b] and you'll make a bigger impact on the betterment of the world.[/quote]

How so? Honest question. How do you impact the big things cited earlier in your paragraph besides voting?[/quote]

Grass roots. Start small and then expand. Simply being kind in day to day interactions with strangers is a start. [/quote]

This. Having empathy and being kind is radical in the face of this kind of regime.

They WANT you to feel defeated. They want your cynicism. They want you to think that nothing matters, that there is no point in trying or caring about anything.

So don't. Read a poem or a book. Hug your friends. Read the news. Get mad. Get frustrated. Talk about it. Care. Be human. Don't give in.[/quote]

Holding onto our humanity is the most radical thing we can do. Even when others won’t. Even when they mock us. Even/especially in the face of shocking inhumanity.

It’s also just a practical, and somewhat self-serving thing. In darkness, we need light. If we can keep a bit of the light inside us, we are never in total darkness.

So hell yes to poetry. Live theater. Great music. Get together with friends and read a beautiful book aloud. Volunteer somewhere where you are reminded that humans are beautiful and messy and suffering and in desperate need of gentleness and grace. Just seeing this is a reminder of gentlenesd and grace. None of these things will fix the world — none of them. But here we all are nonetheless. [/quote]

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