Tomorrow’s the day.
Hello lovelies. It’s been a rough couple of years, hasn’t it? Hell, it’s been a rough couple of centuries, but it feels like the US government has looked at minorities, at women, at disabled people, at the LGBTQ+ community, and gone, “Well, they’ve had their fun.” That they decided to teach us a lesson for demanding the recognition of our basic humanity.
I could write a long, long essay about power systems and how the last two years are the product of centuries, but you can read that from smarter and more qualified people. What I will say is this:
I don’t discuss this much, but I worked on two political campaigns. In full disclosure, I worked for the Democratic Party, at the state level, to help turn out the vote and encourage voters to support key races. Every time, working on the youth vote was viewed - at best - chasing a unicorn. The youth vote just didn’t show up.
And here’s how this cycle works:
The candidate focuses on issues important to their largest voting population (a.k.a. baby boomers)
Younger voters feel abandoned
Younger voters don’t bother to vote
See #1.
I know a lot of us are frustrated with the Democratic officials who keep wringing their hands and running to the middle and caving to the GOP. I promise it’s because that’s what baby boomer voters keep hiring them to do. But in about a month? We have the opportunity to take that hiring authority away. We have the opportunity to tell the Democrats they answer to us, not to your “I’m liberal but all lives matter” uncle.
Tomorrow is the last day to register to vote in many states. Please register if you haven’t already, and double-check your registration status if you have. (Voters are being aggressively purged from polls this year.)
After confirming Kavanaugh yesterday, Mitch McConnell said (arguably through the sad, decaying flesh-suit he wears as his human disguise) that all our anger would just “blow over soon.”
I don’t feel like letting it blow over. Do you?
