Most op-eds, social media posts, editorials, blog posts, tv/radio talk spots, and podcasts skip this part in bold type immediately below — any way of carrying out this essential (if you want a hope of success, that is) organizing task:
Click here if you want to receive messages about how to stay involved.
Not informed (vital though that is) but involved.
Because most political messages skip this step, countless opportunities are lost for organizing people around a cause, for strengthening voices in solidarity, and so forth. If memory serves me, one thing the long-lost Obama 2008 campaign website did was help people stay involved. Not just informed, involved.
We Americans tend to think that voting and maybe the occasional public event fulfills our civic duty. The powerful love that theory of citizenship and all the hundreds of days of silence from us and peace for them that it involves.
I notice at the end of Timothy Snyder's Substack posts you usually see resource links on the topics of resistance and making positive solutions. That's heading in the right direction.
Not just informed, involved.