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Seems hard to imagine. The few years of social media saturation has pushed people further apart, subdividing is into fractured enclaves of true believers. A popular leader or organization who can pull together these threads of movements into a cohesive rope is needed. Bernie was the best I've seen for that in this country. He had Civil Rights cred, decades of sticking to message, a popular platform (universal health care) and the most campaign contributions by orders of magnitude more than other candidates, pulling votes from disparate communities. And look where that got him. Licking Joe Bidet's boots and thankful for the opportunity.
As things get worse, people will need to rely on each other to get by. Maybe that will be when we build community...
This is not what I'm experiencing on the ground, you should engage more with your community if you're in an urban region, and if you don't live in an urban area but want to contribute I can only tell you that being in an urban area is paramount to organizing anything