We need dual power — networks parallel to the established political system, able to organize effective protests, marches, demonstrations, and mass worker strikes, and to support individuals who are arrested or fired from their jobs in the course of those activities. Otherwise we’re fucked imo. Voters don’t get to choose policy. We vote for people. We vote for promises that are not kept. We vote for weasel words, vague convictions, “aspirational” platforms. At best, we vote to stall the inevitable, to pause the one-way ratchet of American politics for another turn. It’s a ratchet that will slowly crush us.