Not a huge amount, maybe. I joined a party in my home country that’s supposed to fix things like that. I voted for an underdog candidate in the internal leadership election who had very classical left talking points (among them a vacancy tax).
The party managed to get into government for the first time in a long time at the next election afterward, but as a junior partner to the conservatives. Now they do hardly anything out of fear that the conservatives blow up the coalition and instead do a coalition with the right wing extremist party.
So that’s that for now.
Other than that I talk to people and tell them about stuff like that. Because while the majority of the voting public would benefit from e.g. a vacancy tax, the majority is not for a vacancy tax because they neither understand the tax nor why it is necessary. So I educate people and bring them around to the idea. I can’t change the country, but I can change people around me. And if enough people do that, movements can form and things can change.
One such movement managed to ban nuclear power in my country in the 70s (famously, right after they finished the first nuclear powerplant, which then never got turned on).
and what are you going to do about it? exactly? because vast majority of the voting public wants it this way and benefits from it being this way.
Not a huge amount, maybe. I joined a party in my home country that’s supposed to fix things like that. I voted for an underdog candidate in the internal leadership election who had very classical left talking points (among them a vacancy tax).
The party managed to get into government for the first time in a long time at the next election afterward, but as a junior partner to the conservatives. Now they do hardly anything out of fear that the conservatives blow up the coalition and instead do a coalition with the right wing extremist party.
So that’s that for now.
Other than that I talk to people and tell them about stuff like that. Because while the majority of the voting public would benefit from e.g. a vacancy tax, the majority is not for a vacancy tax because they neither understand the tax nor why it is necessary. So I educate people and bring them around to the idea. I can’t change the country, but I can change people around me. And if enough people do that, movements can form and things can change.
One such movement managed to ban nuclear power in my country in the 70s (famously, right after they finished the first nuclear powerplant, which then never got turned on).