I have never so angrily filled in a bubble in all my life. My ballot went back into the mail the day after I received it and that was four days before the first debate.
In all honesty, what is there to debate anymore? You either stand with this K-Mart brand Lex Luthor that is clearly a white supremacist or you stand against him. And if you don't take the effort to vote against him, guess what, you're standing with him regardless of all the belly aching and whining that you do.
Not everyone has the privilege to say they can sit this one out. The hypothetical list of “others” is rapidly growing and chances are most of us are on this list. Vote to protect your friends and loved ones. Directly or indirectly, we all know someone that has been affected by the awfulness of the past few years.
This is no longer the time or the place for the pseudo-intellectual mental gymnastics that lead some people to think that both candidates are equally as bad. Thinking that there could be a push toward socialism under right-wing fascism is laughable at this point. Try having your monthly DSA meeting or anarchist potluck while there are roving gangs of racists on the street and drones in the air. We are no longer in a classroom and academic theory will not cut it out in the wild.
The current state of electoral politics is not the answer to our problems but there are bigger issues at hand. And it is possible to do two things. You can sit around and have discussions until you are blue in the face but you can also take a break from that to cast a ballot.
Indifference and complacency were contributing factors in what brought us here. Now is the time to act. We are being counted on to be unreliable and to remain indifferent and complacent. Let's show these pigfuckers that they're wrong. I'm tired of going to my polling place and not having to wait in line.
Do you remember how it felt on November 9th, 2016? Waking up to the news that a huckster had somehow been elected President. The disbelief that enough people had fallen for the con and the uncertainty of what was to come was growing by the minute. Do you remember that?
Do you remember the disgust of the Muslim ban and the children dying in cages? Do you remember the pain and the anger after Charlottesville, Parkland, Tree Of Life and so many others? Then add on the tragedies of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd. And don't forget the forced hysterectomies in our concentration camps. We have been bombarded with so much awfulness at such incredible speed that it's almost impossible to keep track of it all.
For everyone that marched in a protest, publicly mourned after a tragedy or just felt despondent and didn't know what to do, now is the time to act. A show of force at the polls is what is needed right now. I know it won't solve everything and might feel meaningless but if we don't collectively force a correction, right now, I don't think there will ever be a chance to recover.
I always keep in mind the over 200,000 people that have died from COVID. I lost my mother back in February and still haven't recovered from it and that makes me think about how there are over 200,000 families that feel like I do and I feel terrible. So much grief and suffering that could have been prevented if people would have been seen as more important than the stock market.
I can't stand Joe Biden and don't agree with a lot of the things that he has done and supported but at least he acts like a human being. He seems to be a decent man that knows loss and has been humbled by life. Empathy and feeling the weight of everyday life don't seem like foreign concepts to him.
On the other hand, we are dealing with people that try to negate what we see and hear with our own eyes and ears. Attempting to rewrite events that just happened in front of us as if there were no such thing as cameras and video tape. Let's show them that we see through their bullshit and refuse to be their docile servants.
One of the weirdest things in all of this is that these assholes finally took off their loosely worn mask when it comes to punishing us in some way shape or form for not being born wealthy. Somewhere along the way it became a sin to be a part of the proletariat. Keep in mind that we did not start this class war. Over the course of human history, those that have are willing to do whatever is necessary to keep it from those that don't have. Greed has been able to become a virtue for people who supposedly follow the teachings of Jesus. Clearly, these greedheads have not read the Sermon On The Mount but expecting anyone to read anything these days might be a little much.
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