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What Do We Do After the Election Is Over?
How can we make sure the next U.S. presidential election year isn’t as lousy as this one has been? Some thoughts on after the election. The U.S. presidential …
WatchThe Election Is Over
There are 1,455 days until the next U.S. presidential election. Make all of them count.
Watch2016 Presidential Election: Now What?
Our biggest problems weren’t solved by eight years of Obama…and they won’t be solved by four years of Trump. Well…the election’s finally over. Let’s just say it didn’t go the …
WatchWe Need a Real Movement
Not a fake one to win votes or sell stuff. A real one. What Kind of Movement? We endlessly debate whether this Movement should be liberal or conservative, religious or secular…as …
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How Do We Create Real, Lasting Social Change?
Things aren’t going to get better on their own. What we need is a clear, concrete, accessible, realistic, practical, collective, unifying, commonsense plan.
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Step 1: We Need to Get in the Right Frame of Mind
We need to deal with the apathy, cynicism, scapegoating, and despair that results from living in this kind of environment for so long.
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Step 2: We Need to Take Stock
We need to understand why our old institutions aren’t coping with this new, modern world.
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Step 3: We Need to Set the Right Goals
If we really want to achieve our goals, we have to work within the boundaries of how things actually work.
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Step 4: We Need to Take Care of Ourselves
It’s hard to juggle taking care of yourself and making the world a better place at the same time. We need to make sure we get the balance right.
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Step 5: We Need to Be More Strategic About Working for Change
We don’t have a problem with the will or the desire to change. We have a problem with turning that desire into effective action.
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Step 6: We Need to Build Strong Communities
We’re one, global people, folks. And it’s time we started acting like it.
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Step 7: We Need to Deal With Our Ideological Differences
We’ve shattered what should be one common project of figuring stuff out into a million specialized pieces, and pitted them all against each other.
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Step 8: We Need to Act Collectively
We need to be working together in large numbers, as part of a coordinated effort. That’s the only way we’re really going to get rapid, peaceful progress.
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Step 9: We Need to Reform Our Institutions
We’re going to have to figure out how to get our institutions to work for us, instead of the political and economic elites they currently work for.
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Step 10: We Need to Avoid Common Pitfalls
When people get together and try to make change happen, there’s a pretty consistent set of obstacles they have to overcome.
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