This attempt at self-congratulation is hooey. Why would you be better prepared to respond to the coming eco-social crisis because you ignored an election? I can just picture you at your "movement" meetings, didactically claiming your right to leadership because of your years in your group. Martin Luther King, age 25, had been in Montgomery for about six months before he was put atop the MIA.
BTW, the civil rights movement would never have happened without the organizing tradition, but it also wouldn't have happened without Brown v. Board of Education. Movements are primary, but they are not Prometheus. Elections and courts and parties matter, too.