THE BEST POLITICAL CONVERSATIONS
AREN’T POLITICAL AT ALL
Currently, We're living through rising fascism, widespread censorship, entrenched racism, patriarchal violence, late-stage capitalism, and accelerating climate change.
The systems that were supposed to protect us? Pff, they are failing us dismally. Or worse, they are actively harming the most vulnerable.
So the question is: what the f*ck are we going to do about it?
At this point in time, most of us are too busy consuming outrage on socials that we’ve forgotten how to create actual change. The billionaire tech bros have us exactly where they want us: isolated, anxious, and too exhausted from *performing* online to do the actual work offline. We’ve retreated into digital echo chambers, mistaking our likes for impact and our awareness for action.
Yet here’s the brutal truth we need to reckon with . . .
If we want to get out of this current mess and help protect future generations, we need to transform the culture that created and sustains these crises of fascism, white supremacy, and capitalism NOW. Not just sit through the f*ckery, or rebrand the apocalypse, but fundamentally change how Americans think about power, oppression, and possibility. For the benefit of the entire world.
Change doesn’t just happen — poof, we’re better now 💫 — it needs to be planted, nurtured, and grown through daily practice, real conversations in living rooms, and sustained action.
Ever thought about how sometimes the best political conversations aren’t *political* at all? how change can happen from the most innocuous of places?
For instance, it happens when your *conservative* uncle actually sits down with you at Thanksgiving and has a conversation that doesn’t end with someone storming off. It happens in book clubs where suburban moms suddenly realize that maybe, just maybe, the system isn’t broken — it’s working exactly as designed. It happens over glasses of wine in backyards where people feel safe enough to say, “I don’t understand this, help me understand.”
Watch Succession with your boomer parents and suddenly you’re talking about wealth inequality without anyone getting defensive. Start a book club with The Fifth Season and watch people naturally start connecting systemic oppression to geological catastrophe. The Good Place has done more to get Americans thinking about moral philosophy than any academic text ever could.
Stories are trojan horses for the conversations we desperately need to have.
When you’re talking about dragon hoarding or dystopian governments, people’s defenses come down. They stop protecting their political identity and start actually thinking. Stories give us the distance we need to see our own systems clearly. When we can explore privilege through the lens of who gets to wield magic and who doesn’t, suddenly we’re having revelations about redlining and educational access without anyone having to admit they were wrong about anything.
Changing culture isn’t about winning arguments online — it’s about creating spaces where people can actually change their minds. Because literally not one person ever changed their mind because some d*ckhead yelled at them on Facebook. Yet they might change their mind when someone they know helps them connect the dots between their own struggles and systemic oppression.
Revolution isn’t burning it all down — in fact, it’s the exact opposite. It’s the small, consistent acts of community building, mutual aid, and systemic change that transform culture from the ground up. Every successful movement in history has happened because people talked to each other face-to-face, built trust, created networks of care and resistance that no algorithm could infiltrate.
The revolution will definitely not be tweeted — but it might just happen over coffee in your kitchen, or over a book, or during the credits of a show that just blew your mind.