The average political speech, the average op-ed, the average social media post, seeks a nod of agreement and maybe a trip to the voting booth. These average speeches and bits of writing don't care about building organized activism. The foundation of their philosophy is that "we insiders, having been elected, will take care of everything. We don't need citizens except for a day in November. It's a pretty story those speakers and writers tell themselves about their own importance, but in a crisis like the one we have now, the writers of these speeches and op-eds are out of their minds. In this kind of crisis, average political speech will kill us.
This post is a cousin to the earlier post about semaphore, I think.