Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport
Democracy isn’t won on Election Day—it’s forged in daily reps of engagement. This image calls out the couch spectators and celebrates the organizers, agitators, and everyday lifters of civic weight.
Democracy isn’t dying. It’s doing exactly what it was designed to do: absorb dissent, sanitize rage, and reroute power back to the top.
The rituals remain, voting, panels, task forces, but the substance has long since been extracted.
We don’t need more reform commissions.
We need worker co-ops, public banks, community land trusts, and strikes that cost the ruling class sleep.
Stop waiting for permission. Start building in parallel.
The system isn’t broken. It’s built this way.
And democracy, real democracy, isn’t something you watch. It’s something you do.