I don’t fully engage in debates over policy not because I want to live in my rose-tinted bubble, but because I don’t see top-down policy as a good way to effect change. I believe a change of heart is all we have to focus on as actions will follow suit. Although we rarely celebrate the incremental, soft-spoken approaches, they are much more real to me. So I focus on the individual interactions in my daily life and empowering those around me to live the way they see fit. Their liberty is my liberty and our liberty. When we all have it, policy becomes obsolete. And, as Thoreau said, once we’re ready for it, that is kind of government we will have.