Polarity of activism vs. escapism

We’re drowning in escapism. Where’s the healthy citizen engagement?

I celebrate the Squad and all the new activism since 2016. I do worry, as Alonzo Boden mentions on his podcast, how the more light-filled more radical Dems could allow, promote, create conflict with the moderate light-less Democratic colleagues A real effort for the light-filled Dems to include the moderates needs to begin soon.

The excuse up to 2016 used to be, “The people in charge of Neighborhood Watch, and local school boards, etc, are all over age 50 or age 60 and not interested nor open to new ideas and more lively face-to-face interaction. Since 2016 this excuse continues to shrink and dry up.

A healer friend of mine put it this way, “Where’s the healthy outrage against Trump, McConnell and the Trumpsters?” Her idea is people’s immune systems are so run down, they have little internally left to fight back with. They allow themselves to get caught up in survival and then are content, only have energy for, rest until the next effort for survival must be made. Hence the validity and usefulness of escapism in moderation.

Where do you stand on this?