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If you really want to help make things better: don't focus on elections (that includes more local ones).
Real political power doesn't come from the ballot box, but from political organizing.
Here's a video discussing how to start organizing
Nooo, you have to blindly pick a side and act like you’re infallible and the other fallible.
Don’t let up from the culture war, or else you might look to see the class war running everything.
What's the point of political organizing if the goal isn't to get your people into elected positions?
The pointeis actual political power for the people.
I agree, but political power to what end? People usually use political power to get people elected. What's the alternate use for political power? Lobbying is just buying off already elected people, and even a violent coup is using political power to install a different political system, so what's the point of political power if you don't use it for politics?
But different politics and a different political system doesn't mean that in the end there's still gonna be some representative in some parliament or mayor's office. Popular movements can shape the political landscape without ever relying on getting "the right people"into elected positions.