With apologies, this response is dangerous on its face — and contradictory. A sentence like “Until the leadership gets on board it does not matter who is in power” is self-evidently nonsensical. Also, leaders almost never figure anything out for themselves, they ride the winds of public opinion. And the most forceful (peaceful) expression of that opinion is through the vote. The current administration’s rollbacks are most definitely not “just talk and grandstanding,” they are ongoing and extremely consequential. (I refer again to National Geographic’s ongoing, ever-expanding list of changes the current administration has made in just its first two years.) To blithely declare that we can’t do anything because our leaders aren’t listening, and that voting is inconsequential, is to invite exactly the kind of disaster that many of us see with increasing clarity every day. The surest way to get railroaded by those in power is to first cede to them your own most effective power: the vote.