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Problems with current thinking of many muslim political parties today like Brotherhood and hizb-ut-tahrir and others

Problems with current thinking of many muslim political parties today like Brotherhood and hizb-ut-tahrir and others: They think that our duty as muslims in our societies is to implement islam politically and ensure Allah swt’s laws are implemented at a state level. My view is that our duty is to implement Islam on ourselves first. This will then lead to the correct communal response I believe. Here is how : As civilians in a state or country we will want to live such that we are not humiliated but respected and valued in our countries. Not threatened by the regime etc. But the reality is that we have despots ruling in our regions so we need to think about what to do to improve things. Firstly threatening the despots isn’t going to help things. They will just learn to work harder to oppress us. Especially if they know we want to put someone else in power other than them. So instead we need to see if we can go to a middle ground where we can make improvements to our condition. Witho...