Discovered: Apr 13, 2026 14:37 (UTC) ME::tl;dr-ing: Be in community in real life as well as online ; Alan Elrod, Greg Sargent:: America Is Deeply Unwell, and It’s Time to Say So ¦ The New Republic <– QUOTE: But if you don’t get out there and know your neighbors, if you don’t get out there and try to fix the social capital problem we have—a book club, start a movie night club, do something like that—if you don’t do those things and engage in those kinds of face-to-face interactions that really revive civic life around you, where you are, then I don’t think that this is a problem that we’re going to get out of anytime soon. That’s my hopeful message, actually, because I am hopeful about it. But winning an election is actually the short-term fix. Doing this stuff is the long-term.

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