We have 56 days until the 2020 election throughout the US. That’s 8 weeks all through which I’ll be attempting my damnedest to get leaders elected who will switch the dial in direction of equity, inclusion, and progressive insurance coverage insurance policies that may do the least harm and the very best good.
I like lists. I like checking points off of lists. I’d hazard the guess that quite a few of us finding out this do, too. So, every Monday until November, I’ll be itemizing one explicit movement to soak up preparation of the election. Electoral politics gained’t resolve each factor, nevertheless voting is a instrument throughout the discipline and it have to be sharpened, oiled, and ready for movement.
Week Six & Seven: Use your platform.
A twofer to make up for my lack of put up all through our switch remaining week:
I am voting for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I am not entertaining conversations in regards to the incumbent.
A vote for the incumbent is a vote for racism, for misogyny, for a reckless disregard for human life. It is a vote in opposition to science and understanding. It’s a vote for isolation. It’s a vote in opposition to paintings and custom and education. It’s a vote in opposition to children and households. It’s a vote in opposition to the aged, the poor, the sick. It’s a vote in opposition to democracy. It’s a vote in opposition to our planet. It’s a vote for chaos and dysfunction. There is no such issue as voting for a single concern on this election, or ever. Whenever you strong your vote for the current administration since you’re fiscally conservative, or because you oppose abortion, or because you want to defend your unmitigated correct to bear arms, you could be voting for all the rest of it, too.
Low cost people cannot disagree on this.
In 2016, as soon as I wrote that I was voting for Hillary Clinton, I was gobsmacked by the response throughout the suggestions a part of that put up. I was horrified, nevertheless I allowed the suggestions to play out, cowed by the feeling that I ought to allow people to voice their opinions, however rather a lot they differed from my very personal. I gained’t be doing that this time.
Of us usually thank me for “using my platform.” I hope each explicit individual finding out this realizes that each of us has a platform. I hope that this week (and remaining) and for all the weeks ahead, of us who come all through my space on-line will probably be motivated to contemplate their very personal spheres of have an effect on and the messages they’re sending every quietly and correct out loud. There is no such issue as being apolitical. There is no time for silence. I hope that a lot of you may use your platform—irrespective of that seems like—to voice a dedication to a United States of America that does not have the current administration on the helm. You don’t need to argue or debate with anyone. You don’t wish to current space to hateful rhetoric. You might merely state, unequivocally, what it is that you just simply stand for.
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And don’t overlook:
+ Look at your registration.
+ Make a voting plan.
+ Ship some postcards.
+ Full the Census.
+ Look earlier the presidency.