Seems like it *could* be a good warmup for a general strike. Maybe, kinda sorta. Maybe, hypothetically, we could lean into the ways that we come together to survive the shutdown to prefigure supporting that kind of action. Just sayin'.

That said, the way the City/County government is set up, the Commissions are the only point of public contact and most of the decision making and policy implementation is handled by the City Managers office/County Admin staff. Which makes it hard for the average voter to know how to affect anything.

I also think that getting informed and building a political coalition is grueling hard work. That business interests have the money to pay staff to organize in their interest. And that we've been propagandized to believe we lack agency.

That wouldn't explain how few people showed up for the City Commission primary, so we ended up re-nominating Bob Schumm. I think it's that a lot of people don't engage politically until something impacts them personally, and then they do it reactively.