@glaskows I don't believe that, though, either, which I'm sure you'd expect. As you say, you understand I believe that power itself is the problem - therefore I reject the claim that we have "democracies" under hierarchies with concentrations of centralised power consisting of a careerist class of professional politicians. The fact is, no government ever has liberated, nor ever will liberate, all its people from oppression. Pumping activist energies into doomed "get out the vote" drives is buying more time for capitalists while our planet is being destroyed. They're laughing at us. It's really too bad.