Single Issues Are Limiting
Over the centuries, we have made impressive progress by working one issue after another, addressing one individual hierarchy after another.
This silo strategy has enabled us to organize and band together. We have fought to be heard and taken seriously, securing our rights and increasing our opportunities. Separate groups can still provide safe spaces to organize and vent with like-minded people.
But now, only working single issues has serious drawbacks. We miss opportunities to form powerful diverse groups of like-minded people. We cannot incorporate new strategies that require multiple perspectives from numerous groups. Also, we continue to be more vulnerable to attacks by authoritarians/hierarchy builders (hierarchists) when we stay isolated in one group.
We Stop Pushing Away Allies
While defending and protecting our own single issue, many of us have excluded, rejected, insulted, and even caused harm to people outside our group who could have joined with us to become important allies.
We may have overlooked potential team members by saying they are too fragile to contribute. We may have made up demeaning names that ridiculed them and made them reluctant to even try to participate. We may have criticized people, sometimes using public disgrace, in ways that made people reluctant and scared to even try again to support us or to help us.