such a huge relief that hillary’s so ahead in the polls and trump has such a small chance of winning, right? WRONG. DO NOT GET APATHETIC OR COMFORTABLE. DO NOT DECIDE YOU DON’T NEED TO VOTE BECAUSE YOU’RE SURE HILLARY WILL WIN. the only way trump can win now is if so many people expected to vote for hillary don’t show up to the polls. because you BETTER believe ALL of his supporters will be at the polls.
brexit passed in the UK because young people grew apathetic because they were sure it wasn’t going to pass. and it did, because old racists and xenophobes showed up in DROVES to vote.
tl;dr: VOTE, PEOPLE. VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT. IT MIGHT.
*AGGRESSIVELY STARES AT USAMERICANS IN 2024*
People, people, don’t pull the same shit that was done in 2016.
In 2016, people didn’t like Clinton so they either didn’t vote, protest voted 3rd party, or straight-up voted for Trump.
Look what that got us. 4 years of a literal dumpster fire.
in 2020 we united behind a candidate that might not have been our favorite but he wasn’t Trump, and we booted Trump out.
For some goddamn reason we are having a replay of that election - a felon (Trump) is running for the presidency, he has FLAT-OUT said he’s going to be a dictator on day 1, and has plans to completely eliminate a LOT of rights people take for granted and have fought for for years.
We need to unite once more behind Biden. Not because he’s your favorite (he may well not be), not because he’s perfect (he isn’t), but because if we DON’T we may never have another election in this country. It will be a major defeat for basically anyone who isn’t white, male, and evangelical.
Rally the troops. Stand up again like you did in 2020. Get out the vote. We’ve got to make this happen.
A battle was won. The war is far from over.
38.3% of eligible voters in New York voted in the 2022 general.
if you do not participate you do not get to complain when the time comes where your rights are getting stripped away and more people are dying than ever before. you will have done it to yourself.
your refusal to participate in the collective game is in itself a decision to murder millions of people abroad and disenfranchise millions of people stateside. you are pushing the button. you are flipping the switch.
your inaction is complicity. this will be your fault.