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Nov. 6th, 2018 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pallas_athenaUS friends: if you have not yet voted, I hope you will do so.
I hope you will ensure that your friends, families, students and colleagues can vote. Those of you offering lifts to polling places, looking after people’s children and animals, covering for them at work and otherwise volunteering are saints.
Today have it in our power to win a future of greater justice, wisdom and kindness for our country. Victory today will not magically solve everything, but it will make it possible to make things better.
I need not tell you what we face: a party that has embraced white supremacist racism and violence; misogyny and sexual assault; hatred of immigrants, of people of Muslim or Jewish faith, of lesbian, gay, nonbinary and especially trans people.
The Republicans do not see any of these things as problems, or as disqualifications for high office. Indeed, they have embraced and endorsed candidates who have committed all of these and worse. Under it all lies a contempt for the people on lowest incomes that work the hardest; for people in poverty; without health insurance; living with a disability or caring for loved ones with disabilities.
We have a chance to help all the people Trump and the Republicans have hurt, and to prevent the greater harm they intend. We have a chance to enact sensible gun laws; to make sure all people in America have health care; to stop the persecution and detention of undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers; to work for equality, and end the entrenched injustices based on race, gender, sexuality, ability, social background and more.
Everyone deserves housing, food, education and health care. This shouldn’t be a radical position. It’s an indictment of our times that it is now portrayed as one.
That’s what we’re working for. That’s what we stand to win. And when we do, it will benefit Republicans too. If they win, they want to crush us; if we win, we will begin to help them.
That is also the greatest fear of those who cling to power in the name of fear, exclusion and hate: that their carefully indoctrinated voters will see them for the frauds they are. They have made their choices; today we make ours.
Go vote. And please help others vote. Pound the streets. Light up the phones. Win this. Bring it home.
(Posted to Facebook 6 November 2018)
I hope you will ensure that your friends, families, students and colleagues can vote. Those of you offering lifts to polling places, looking after people’s children and animals, covering for them at work and otherwise volunteering are saints.
Today have it in our power to win a future of greater justice, wisdom and kindness for our country. Victory today will not magically solve everything, but it will make it possible to make things better.
I need not tell you what we face: a party that has embraced white supremacist racism and violence; misogyny and sexual assault; hatred of immigrants, of people of Muslim or Jewish faith, of lesbian, gay, nonbinary and especially trans people.
The Republicans do not see any of these things as problems, or as disqualifications for high office. Indeed, they have embraced and endorsed candidates who have committed all of these and worse. Under it all lies a contempt for the people on lowest incomes that work the hardest; for people in poverty; without health insurance; living with a disability or caring for loved ones with disabilities.
We have a chance to help all the people Trump and the Republicans have hurt, and to prevent the greater harm they intend. We have a chance to enact sensible gun laws; to make sure all people in America have health care; to stop the persecution and detention of undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers; to work for equality, and end the entrenched injustices based on race, gender, sexuality, ability, social background and more.
Everyone deserves housing, food, education and health care. This shouldn’t be a radical position. It’s an indictment of our times that it is now portrayed as one.
That’s what we’re working for. That’s what we stand to win. And when we do, it will benefit Republicans too. If they win, they want to crush us; if we win, we will begin to help them.
That is also the greatest fear of those who cling to power in the name of fear, exclusion and hate: that their carefully indoctrinated voters will see them for the frauds they are. They have made their choices; today we make ours.
Go vote. And please help others vote. Pound the streets. Light up the phones. Win this. Bring it home.
(Posted to Facebook 6 November 2018)