Trust me Dave - I know how you feel.

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2015/01/twelve-years-before-blog.html

"The project I have in mind is to tackle the big challenge that progressives face: How do we create a sustained and viable movement, a real and substantive Left Wing that has real power in American and global politics?

I believe we need to reconceive not just the meaning of "the Left," but of movement politics themselves. We need to reconfigure not just the purpose and meaning of progressivism, but the underlying dynamic that feeds the increasingly intractable left-right divide currently in play.

The core idea is to create a "Human Movement" -- a mass movement predicated on enshrining the value of every individual human being, of ensuring the dignity and value of every life and every person. It will be fundamentally anti-corporate, anti-plutocratic, and anti-authoritarian, but moreover will positively embrace the advancement of the welfare of ordinary people, relying on the power of communities and networks to secure it. The essential value that it will embody will be empathy and its immanations."

The thing is, such a movement must really and truly not be constrained by elements from before the 21th Century (i.e. governments, armed forces, terrorists, hate groups, religion, corporations, etc.) or any mechanism in which these elements which can be co-opted, manipulated, twisted, debunked, or just plain destroyed.

Such a movement should be able to reach people (the vast majority of people across the globe) freely and rationally and really help people find their dignity, their value, their path to their means of happiness.

Such a movement will need to be in place not only to save ourselves from those very elements that threaten not only to destroy ourselves, but everything and everyone else on the planet, but really bring us forward as a species and an occupier of space, time, and matter in the galaxy. That last bit may sound kind of hokey, but what I'm driving at is, someday should we ever encounter other lifeforms from other planet, or galaxy, or other part of the universe, it would be nice to be able to be a species and life form they would want to learn from us, as we'd want to from them.