Seadoggity

I don't think so? If revolution turns out to be unfeasible due to the speed of modern technological advancement fueling pre-existing power structures, and betterment by reform is off the table due to the mounting power of propaganda, leftists need to be more creative about their praxis. Creating a lifeline for migrants and refugees to get back up on their feet and live within an economically democratic community seems like the only praxis that can help anyone, based on what I've seen.

True, or plant them.

Honestly, I don't want it to be a revolutionary vehicle for the whole system, I'd rather just help people escape -- and if we can prove firsthand that mutual aid works and we can insulate society against manipulation and power grabbing, maybe normal people would see it as a possibility for once. I think our country is bound too tightly by its shared cultural mythology to do anything meaningful. Expecting to fix the whole world, seems to me like a fool's game. Even while people recognize the abuses of the economic upper class, their minds are closed to understanding the cultural upper-class, composed of successful psychopaths and their sycophants leading everyone else by the nose. Such a culture cannot be fixed, you can only help people escape and survive until everyone else's illusion collapses sufficiently for them to adapt to the danger they were unwilling to see, which may not even be possible on a large scale in today's world.

You would have thought 10 years ago, that if everyone learned the most powerful people in the country, the ones who lead politicians, were involved in CSA / trafficking, everyone would lose their shit and force the system's hand to at least assert this one basic moral expectation -- right? Turns out that is not the case. They can manufacture consent for everything up to and including that. It's a lost cause at that point. There is no future in trying to convince people who don't wanna be convinced or helped imho