affirmation for people who broiled their brains in online political discourse: it is not necessary for the average person to have a vision for utopia with all the practical details fully worked out and a step by step plan for how this would be enacted. that is not a normal prerequisite to hold over yourself or others before having any opinions about anything.
even on a much more personal level this is a good thing to release yourself from
"I want this."
"How are you going to get it?"
"Idk, I didn't say I'm going to get it right this second, I said I wanted it."
give yourself permission to want a better life even if you don't have a perfectly airtight plan to achieve it. the "who's gonna pay for it" conversation comes after the clarification of needs and hopes, it doesn't pre-empt it
right-wingers love this because it tricks us into removing the status quo from the equation. they create an impression that the way things are now is somehow "neutral" so any suggestions for change have to be fully considered beyond all reason. don't let them turn the current state of an issue into something passive that we are merely observing. the "political climate" is not one abstract thing that we're trying to fix. it's trillions of smaller things that were put into action chaotically and arbitrarily, without even a fraction of the thoughtfulness they're asking you to summon before they even consider that maybe poverty is bad actually.
