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Become more involved. Do you know your mayor?
If you are not helping pick the candidates on the ballot, then you just need to pick the lesser evil. If you want to do more than that, then be part of the decision of WHO ends up on the ballot, because that process has already started.
There's a significant hurdle to run for even the mayoral office: it doesn't pay well relative to a corporate job, and doesn't have the same job security. People can only run for the decision-making positions when they already have enough wealth to be comfortable without a "real job." Help find or select people with your values and we can take this back.
If you are mad at your options, the solution is not to give up, but to make better options.
There's no lack of attempts at this. The deck isn't just stacked, it's designed not to let outsiders in, so you get insiders-only. From the entire party, how many insiders are even marginally close to what we're asking for? Anyone who would even consider anti-corruption would never see the light of day on the nominations. Hell, we more of less have an entire party (green) that's more or less there to make sure no one else gets close.
The problem isn't the lack of attempts, it's that attempts are hyper focused on narrow avenues of change. People are either all in on the rigged game or highly improbable home runs.
Forcing change strictly through grinding election cycles is as absurd as opt-out accelerationism and magic-wand general strikes. In reality, political action in 2025 requires more legwork on all fronts than ever before.
It does require harm reduction voting, but it also requires building up the social structures that have been lost (or sabotaged) in the last 100+ years. You need to form a union, join a mutual aid network, organize protests and boycotts and every other coordinated action of all shades of legality.
Obviously it's more than any one person can do alone, but every person making those connections makes the social web stronger and easier to build on for the next. The first step that 90% of people on here need to do is step away from the digital echo chamber and spend more time in real political world.
There's no mayor in my unincorporated town. The nearest mayor to me is a rather large city 30 minutes away, that presides over 500,000 people, and getting time with him is more than a little challenging. The best I have are delegates and representatives, and let's stay, we don't see eye to eye on social issues. The next closest delegate was an anti-vaxing doctor. They don't really care a lot about what I have to say; they have enough idiots around to keep themselves ensconced.