And, to be clear, the way you affect change in democracy is coalition building, listening to others, supporting your allies in their aims, and in turn having them support you, even when you don’t fully agree or understand. There’s no magic wand, none of us are right, there’s no big picture, just a bunch of people working together.

While I agree that we should be voting in people who will respect the power and authority they're given, I can't imagine we will vote away all these problems.

We would need to vote in a president and 60%+ into congress that is willing to throw away their own power and authority. I just don't see that happening, especially not in a political system so corrupted already.

> But let’s do it through voting.

You don't get a successful vote without a tremendous amount of coordination and activism preceding it.

Laws that constrain government from bad things are very difficult things to get the government to pass.

In the meantime, using completely legal civil power to push back on legally allowed harms seems beyond sensible.

But if you just vote and it works without all that, please let us know how you did it!

Take a step back: Americans voted for this. They want unaccountable police and courts for the Dirty Harry legal system: maximum indiscriminate violence against those designated as criminals.