Reform, like charity, must begin at home.

Improvement has to start where you actually have standing. It is far more comfortable to have views about the country than to deal with your own household, and the second is the one you can affect. Grand concern with distant problems can be an elaborate way of not looking nearer.

So before the next campaign, ask what is unattended within twenty feet of you. The relationship gone quiet, the promise you keep renewing, the thing in your own house everyone has agreed not to mention. Deal with one of those this month, then go back to the wider matter with a cleaner conscience.