do you think “holding a sign at a protest” is “taking action?” That’s called “basic participation in democracy.”

People like you are part of the problem.

Am I? I am an old rich white guy who remembers saving up over multiple paychecks to buy a pair of pants to go to an interview for a real job, and had to take a 2 hour busride each way to that job until I could afford a car payment a year later. I still held petitions on street corners in Seattle for medical marijuana, upping the minimum wage, and stopping killing of Palestinians. This was ~ 1995. And look at the results. If we weigh 60 years of results against the effort that went into them, its not working well enough and never has. We need to evolve, and yelling at impoverished young adults that they are at fault is not a coherent answer, if you'd just understand the data we already have.