> It is just part of the process of waking up and becoming unattached and less dependent and more aware of your surroundings and feeling the suffering so you create the will to change things.

Unless there is already the seed of making change and recognizing what change needs to be made, the idle time isn't really going to help. I suffer plenty in life, I don't need to artificially increase that as some sort of motivation to vote differently or interact with my community differently.

> All of this was brought to you by the internet by the people you complain about below.

Disagreement on social issues has always existed and would also exist even without the internet. I'm not sure what your point is with this comment.

I agree local efforts are great and meaningful. But for large systemic change we need different voting habits.