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I'm not familiar with the term.

It generally means working for change through elections both through electing representatives and plebiscites.

The tendency of existing property-asset-wealth-power dynamics makes this at best difficult. See e.g., California Prop. 13.

Wedging that initiative is a very uphill battle.

Agreed.

I wouldn't mind seeing the change, to be clear. Engineering it is the problem.