I don't know how you read that entire thing and decided I'm doing nothing. Leave me alone if all you have to offer is cynicism and critique. I am organizing with local leftists organizations. I am not walking out of my job and losing healthcare and employment in the current job market out of pure principle. If there was a nationwide movement that had real momentum I would join it. I am a part of organizations that are trying to organize such things.

Again, we are not doing nothing. I am doing more than most, but organizing with community, supporting each other, staying politically active, pushing for reform and change at the local, state, and national level, and protesting is not nothing. You cannot actively look at someone who is escaping a burning building with their family and say "well why aren't you in there pulling more people out? You should do more." Surviving and supporting each other is the most many people can do. Strike and active resistance would mean houselessness or lack of healthcare for most people. It simply isn't bad enough to have the support of the general populace yet, they're too brainwashed, and I am not going to throw my life away for an ideal.

I am doing all I can. Fuck anyone who sits in comfort while a system I was born into and actively detest destroys my life and the lives of people I love and says "not good enough." Do you look at refugees from state violence and say "why didn't you stay and resist? You should have fought back. There are more of you than there are of them." We care for ourselves, our family, and our communities first. We work with the hand we were dealt.

Your idealism is callous and unrealistic. I do not believe that you would act any differently were you in my shoes. Can you honestly say that you would choose to forego health and/or home in a pointless gesture of resistance against a machine that will not notice or care for your "sacrifice?" Such an action would be selfish and self-serving. I will not deprive my family and loved ones for a meaningless gesture because some people on the Internet think that EVERYTHING listed above is "doing nothing." I have tried to explain, but you clearly have a vested interest in victim blaming over listening.