Despair is a tool of the oppressors. They want you to think there is nothing we can do but let them rule over us. If we were truly helpless and powerless, if things were truly hopeless, they wouldn't need propaganda and lies. What we need is to open our imaginations as to what is possible, not centrism and the status quo.
https://leighopkins.com/2018/07/18/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action/