If one wants to gain traction maybe the secret is to liaise with the other. In a way bands are a microcosm of that because if one person is in charge of every detail, it isn’t as powerful as when they consider other ideas that aren’t necessarily to their liking… the Beatles vs. their solo records.
Many friends riled up about political assholes. That grips me too, but distrustful about preaching to the converted. An echo chamber is only an echo chamber. In one of my classes we read Bernice Johnson Reagon (of Sweet Honey In The Rock), and a speech she gave called Coalition Politics: Turning The Century. Her experience was that political changes required coalition building, reaching out to people who are not like you. https://womenwhatistobedone.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/1983-home-girls-coalition-politics-bernice-johnson-reagon.pdf