Keep telling yourself that your online ranting matters, Liz. It might help to justify all the time you spend doing it. Inspiring people? You put at least as many people off your various causes with your hysterical argumentative tone and insults as you've ever "inspired". Not to mention going of half-assed and half-cocked about issues you only understand a tiny fragment of because you have never experienced any of it. You live a sad life of bleedingheart colonialism and it isn't even your life. But I'm asure all your pet natives look up to you as their patron saint, sitting in front of your computer 3000 miles away.