Across the Canadian left, politics is increasingly reduced to a familiar routine: open Canva, draft a statement on the issue of the day, post, and repeat. Yet these statements share a defining feature: they offer no plausible path to changing the conditions they describe. It feels like meaningful political action, but it isn’t.
It sounds to me you’re already somewhat inspired, and you’re already doing movement building.
I just want to say one thing about what you said about your skillset, because to me it reads like a feeling of disempowerment. Decades of neoliberalism has trained us to believe the way things work is that are some people who are experts and our part is to let them do their thing and we’ll just be good consumers. (I’m not making a personal criticism to you, I’m outlining a cultural norm.) But there is no cavalry. Lewis isn’t going to save anyone, he’s literally just some guy, and the staff that the party is doing admin work. It’s just us.
So if something is not in our skillset, then we’ll just have to be bad at it :)
It sounds to me you’re already somewhat inspired, and you’re already doing movement building.
I just want to say one thing about what you said about your skillset, because to me it reads like a feeling of disempowerment. Decades of neoliberalism has trained us to believe the way things work is that are some people who are experts and our part is to let them do their thing and we’ll just be good consumers. (I’m not making a personal criticism to you, I’m outlining a cultural norm.) But there is no cavalry. Lewis isn’t going to save anyone, he’s literally just some guy, and the staff that the party is doing admin work. It’s just us.
So if something is not in our skillset, then we’ll just have to be bad at it :)