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dougSo there's going to be an election! Caught me totally by surprise. Who'd have thought it?
I know some of you are thinking of campaigning for one of the parties. Please reconsider spending the time and energy on doing something political instead.
Campaigning in a general election is exhausting, thankless, and changes vanishingly little. Activists end up either burned out and disillusioned with anything political, or further sucked in to the project of maintaining a political party's electoral strength (worse to my mind).
Why not do something more direct? You'd make an actual political difference and are more likely to end up
long-term empowered and active if you actually do something, rather than campaign to get someone elected who if you're lucky might vote the way you want on some laws that say that some other people ought to do something slightly different to what they would have done otherwise.
Take some responsibility!
I know some of you are thinking of campaigning for one of the parties. Please reconsider spending the time and energy on doing something political instead.
Campaigning in a general election is exhausting, thankless, and changes vanishingly little. Activists end up either burned out and disillusioned with anything political, or further sucked in to the project of maintaining a political party's electoral strength (worse to my mind).
Why not do something more direct? You'd make an actual political difference and are more likely to end up
long-term empowered and active if you actually do something, rather than campaign to get someone elected who if you're lucky might vote the way you want on some laws that say that some other people ought to do something slightly different to what they would have done otherwise.
Take some responsibility!