Run for office, me? Hell no, I'd be a terrible leader. And make a worse follower.
I don't share personal information here so won't go into my own efforts but I do engage in personal effort to change the real world. There is so much to do that I put my focus on one area. That being I put my some of my time and resources to support education of girls and women in parts of the developing world where their education have been suppressed. When women are better educated, so many things get better for them and their society. However, it is an incrementalist approach. One person, one family, one community at time.
How does one eat an elephant? One bite at a time.
I've been mystified how anybody can object to efforts at reducing climate change. I've benefited from discussions here with our local deniers and learned much, to my dismay. The main problem is malicious capitalism but also ignorance. The two are a toxic brew. They need to be addressed but they are two different problems. Malicious capitalism is mostly what you go on about but ignorance is something that simply isn't going to be fixed by policy alone.
Malicious capitalism -- some might say capitalism is malicious -- is not going down with words. I get your fear and impatience but I don't hear all the answers coming from political efforts. I don't think the answer to the problems caused by malicious capitalism lie in economics either, as they are taught today. I don't think we know enough about humans and human behavior yet. This is not to say we don't have good ideas that need to be implemented but it's all one big experiment. For this reason, small change is better than big. Theorize, hypothesize, plan, implement, analyze results, incorporate good results and repeat the learning cycle again and again. This is how we will evolve civilization. It's actually what's happening in one fashion or another and has been going on for about 10,000 years.
We spend our time talking about today's election. This is an example of small change, not big. Republicans represent small change backwards while the Democrats who have put Hillary up as candidate also represents small change backwards only less so. That is unacceptable. I think Bernie's efforts might correct that but not as the president. Barring some wildly small chance of turning things around, if he makes a difference it will be behind the scenes. There is nothing you say that reverses this. Trump is not ever going to be made into a positive. Hillary and the system she leads just might be.