As the muscle giant moved from pose to pose, he took immense pleasure in the awestruck eyes from the crowd who took in his vast form and admired his hard-earned muscles. They got to place three judges because they won the 2016 presidential election.Jose stepped out onto the stage, ready to show off for the heavyweight class at the bodybuilding competition.Conservatives have that majority because they got to place 3 judges.Wade being overturned was only able to happen because conservatives have a 6 to 3 supreme court majority. Getting them out of power is, like, the very least you can do to stop them. And as a result, almost nothing got done and the government was shut down a couple times.
We handed the house to the GOP a mere 2 years after starting to clean up their mess. Imagine how much better the country would have been had the GOP not had any power at all after the Bush debacle?īut nope. I have this fantasy that I can go back in time and get everyone who voted in 2008 to also have voted in 2010. Help advertise the stances.Īlso pay attention to what is going on and voice your opinions to them. Support progressive candidates and push for them. You have to pay attention to the stances of the candidates. You need to vote in local and state elections. Simply voting for the president won’t matter.
If the left stops voting then the right would just dominate and it will get worse. The current state of American politics didn’t happen overnight, but it did happen.Ĭhanging it won’t happen overnight, but it will happen - if you work to make it happen. Put in the work - put it in over the time period that the conservatives who are now shaping your world against your wishes did - and you might very well see the results. Then STFU about the broken system! It was your lack of expended energy - or the energy you spent persuading others that ‘marginal change’ was just as bad as ‘no change at all’ (*coughs*NeverHillary*coughs*) - that contributed to the broken system today. But keep pushing at the election after that, and the election after that, and the election after that… It’s true that after the next election, things will look no better than before the election. They were taught that the world they inhabited wasn’t just a privilege that they enjoyed but their right to have and to keep without expending any effort to ensure that it remained so. Look, he’s not unusual in that - the truth is that most Americans aren’t. He’s not willing to put his shoulder to the wheel and work for his democracy. The dude in the tweet above wants “one and done”. Deeply cynical.)ĭo you have the courage to stand up and fight for the rest of your life? Do you have the vision to plant trees for an orchard you’ll never get to enjoy? Do you understand the weight of one vote and one vote and one vote and one vote and one vote, year after year after election after election after decade after decade? (I am deeply cynical that it will stop at Roe v Wade. And they persuaded others to keep voting along with them.Īnd forty years later, you’re staring down the barrel of a dysfunctional democracy, and what looks like it’s very much going to turn into a Christian theocracy. But the votes that the conservatives gained in 1980 didn’t make much difference either: at least, not that year. It’s true that your vote in the next elections may make little difference this year. Forty years of slow wearing down, of teaching Americans that they’re special and that they deserve peace and prosperity and never having to make hard choices between the bad and the worse. This has happened over forty years of slowly picking away at democracy with votes and legislation and policy and conviction. One thing to remember however: this didn’t happen overnight. voting mysteriously becomes meaningless & seeking institutionalized power becomes silly cringe behavior only when it’s NOT primarily white men seeking power to act in the interests of white men at the expense of everyone else. Like the conservatives got all this via voting but tell me how voting is meaningless?Ī rabid white minority gets shit done BECAUSE they have no hesitation about identifying institutionalized power as the most important power, BECAUSE they don’t whine about the terrible ideological burden posed by casting a ballotīut sure. I know for a fact no one in an emergency would ever call on these losers for help.