*on the verge of a whole ass psychological breakdown at the news of rbg after a year and a half of fantastic progress*
*drinks more and checks mailbox for ballot that isnt coming until at least next month*
*is gonna have to schedule more frequent therapy appointments after graduating to 6 weeks between visits*
vote blue, please. i beg of you. direct action is still necessary, yes, light everything on fucking fire. but the parties are not the fucking same. one has committed war crimes and is dismantling democracy. one is imperfect and a little cringe.
as a pansexual nonbinary ÂĽ mexican white, i beg of you. please. they arent coming for us first, obviously. but if youre anything like me, they will come for us if they win. youre kidding yourself if you think they wont.
the war isnt over. this wasnt even a battle, just a tragedy. but if youre on the fence bc you want to prove this desperately unfair voting system wrong, please reconsider. biden will be boring and stagnant at worst, i know. but that shit is better then death, racism, homophobia, and even faster accelerating capitalism that leaves us all in the dust.
besides. at best he’ll be a coward willing to kowtow to leftist pressure in the hopes of a second term. not great, but not a goddamned dumpster fire.
i just want to live. after life has already fucked me over since i was 10–9/11, the Great Recession, pandemic, epilepsy… i know im privileged, but thats kind of my point: im privileged, and that why im still alive. so many are so far less privileged, so many who are dead. either by their own hands or because the systems in place killed them. some less privileged are people i love and care deeply about and want to see still fucking alive when im approaching 40 like im approaching 30 right fucking now.
pragmatism isnt idealism. it never has been.
but that doesnt mean you shouldnt exercise it anyway. because the alternative is what my mexican grampa fought against in the 1940s. what he tried to prevent from ever fucking happening again.
at this point im just glad he died in early 2015 and never had to see us fall this far.
i havent been this scared in so long. but i must cling to idealism, to the idea that things can and should get better, even if i must vote with pragmatism in order to get closer to the dream.
stop being selfish and short-sighted. help us all fucking live for once in our miserable, apocalyptic lives
