Do shifting demographics among young people encourage multi-party systems to evolve, posing difficulty for political parties to hold onto entrenched positions and lead causing a decline in conservative parties? 🇦🇺🇨🇦🇳🇿🇬🇧

Not saying the two party system 🇺🇸 doesn't have its problems, but millenials are so radically different from previous generations that conservatism needs to be bold, not to adapt - adapting hasnt worked in Australia

#pol #politics #politicalchange #politicaltrends #conservatism

bojkotuj wybory

#EmmaGoldman #anarchism #socialactivism
#politicalchange #quoteoftheday #cytat #cytaty
#cytatdnia #wybory #bojkotwyborow #anarchizm
#anarchy #anarchia #antifa #antyfaszyzm

#Mending and #Politics.

At first, mending clothes doesn’t seem like a bold political statement. But in fact, it is a true act of resistance against consumerism.

Be proud, make mending visible ✊

#visiblemending #climate #PoliticalChange

Art is fluid. Art is a mechanism. Art is a way of expressing feeling. Sharing something I wrote some time ago on the topic. https://medium.com/thrive-global/what-if-85c6f4e025b6 #artforchange #climatechange #politicalchange #socialchange #unitednations #minesactioncanada

Is There Any Point to Protesting?

... In “Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work” (Verso), a book published in 2015, then updated and reissued this past year for reasons likely to be clear to anyone who has opened a newspaper, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams question the power of marches, protests, and other acts of what they call “folk politics.” These methods, they say, are more habit than solution. Protest is too fleeting. It ignores the structural nature of problems in a modern world. “The folk-political injunction is to reduce complexity down to a human scale,” they write. This impulse promotes authenticity-mongering, reasoning through individual stories (also a journalistic tic), and a general inability to think systemically about change. In the immediate sense, a movement such as Occupy wilted because police in riot gear chased protesters out of their spaces. But, really, the authors insist, its methods sank it from the start by channelling the righteous sentiments of those involved over the mechanisms of real progress....

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting

#NickSrnicek #AlexWilliams #InventingTheFuture #PostCapitalism #PoliticalProtest #PoliticalChange