Democracy is not a once in four year spectator sport.
Democracy demands that you get up and get involved. Get your skin in the game.
For some of us (BlPOC, Native Americans, women in general) our skin has been in this fucking rigged game, voting year after year for men who look nothing like us and who can never understand what it is to exist in the world as women, as BlPOC, as LGBTQ, as Native and hoping against hope that the person who wins might make an effort to understand and do better. Promote policies to make our lives better, to improve the world we live in, maybe try to advance policies that won't just fuck everyone except the old rich guys over.
The fact that this election is even close, is even a contest, is insulting. Just to be clear, Trump is the antithesis of equity, justice, fairness, or anything else that's good unless you're white and rich.
I am not white, nor am I rich. I am the sole earner in my household. My husband lost his job just before the pandemic and thank God because he has been needed at home to help homeschool our kids. Trump's policies have not helped my family. They have not put more money in the bank or made the future brighter for my children. Trump does not care about me or mine.
Trump cares about himself. He cares about what makes him look good. He cares about power. He is a narcissist.
I know it doesn't matter now, now that people have decided and votes have been cast and decisions have been made, but I want people to know. Voting for Trump is a vote against the people next to you. Voting for Trump is a vote for social policies that hurt people. Voting for Trump is voting against our own well-being and future. I want to be on record saying that so when they come to take me away for dissent, at least I earned that shit.
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