It'd be weird if the #sunrise activists and the #extinctionrebellion activists were right... Right? What if we just haven't been able to psychologically process the fact that electoral politics is a dead end? What then? But really, what then?

I don’t think electoral politics is a dead end. It’s corrupt, but it’s only a dead end if we don’t rise up to override the corruption.

"rise up" and "override" are doing alot of work in that statement... A lot of work that would suggest that relying on electoral politics is a dead end.