Something local, with friends or meeting new friends, that involves connections to larger organizations but is more than a gear in a large machine. Many small projects with human connection.

That's not an easy fill-in-the-blank. I think effective activist culture might remind us more of the percolating young component of startup culture — thinking hackathons, not billionaires.

"Woke" used to be a word with a meaning, in African American vernacular. Critical Race Theory used to mean something. Politically correct (though that word has a complicated history!) Privilege no longer holds the eye-opening meaning that was it's original purpose. 

After GOP messaging:

We are probably about to see a few quite progressive candidates in a primary against each other in California.

Let's start imagining what it would mean to not burn through good will and progressive money, but instead use the election to generate healthy and educational elections: to consciously push politicians to keep egos in check, and to disagree in a way that people hearing the debate come to see Adam Schiff to Barbara Lee as the "Overton window" of reasonable debate.

As Feinstein hopefully retires, some great progressive candidates are running: and about to spend a ton of money trying to win the primary against each other. 

This would be a great time to experiment with alternatives. Here's my first brainstorm, imagine people posting like this: