What's the difference, you (no one in particular) ask?
The difference is the size of their advocacy groups. ARRL vs REACT. However, since there's a memorandum of understanding between them to embrace each other... good question... what's the difference between them? One has more frequencies to legally operate on? What else?
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Public%20Service/REACT%20MOU.pdfhttps://reactintl.org/training/amateur_radio/Sense of history? That's not the modern world anymore. The modern world's effort to erase history, rewrite history, ignore history includes the history of radio. Radio is just another box you can buy from the local electronics store, next to the flat screens and stereos.
Enforcement? Can't have enforcement any more these days. Enforcement is called all kinds of "institutional" anti-freedom names these days.
Democratic values? There's no longer any common definitions to that phrase any more.
The "cesspool" has been there from the beginning. The "cesspool" was the blame for all the lives lost on the Titanic. The "cesspool" was the reason for the Radio Act of 1912 which pushed the "cesspool" down into the 200 Meters and "on down" useless airwaves.
The Book of Judges shows human nature hasn't changed in 3 1/2 Thousand years. Societies rise and fall, and then repeat. Everybody is going to do what they think is right.
I just recently became discouraged with ham radio. I first became a ham when you had to demonstrate you really wanted the privileges associated with it. Today, I look at what's happening and I ask myself, "What the point these days?" My last log entry was 9 September 2020.
It's just a matter of time before we totally do away with the facade of "testing."