Never give in to the despair they want you to have. Fight against regression, and fight for progress. If they want to take our rights, make it a fight at every level
Never give in to the despair they want you to have. Fight against regression, and fight for progress. If they want to take our rights, make it a fight at every level
So where was this BEFORE it came to this point? Even for THIS election.
It’s all well and good people are finally wanting to do something, but fuck the writings been on the walls for decades, kinda hard to feel bad at this point.
In fairness, the group talking about this (Run for something) has existed since 2017 and elected about a thousand progressives in local and state government. They haven't been idle before this, just seems like there's more people interested now
We need everyone we can get now to fight back. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today
I think this is the step between supporting the experienced people around you, and feeling that you're ready to take it on yourself
Fine, I'll do it myself
I don't want to hold power i don't want to be the one. It's not something I want to do. BUT if the fucking people i choose don't want to do what I ask them to do i guess I will fucking do it my self.
I imagine a lot of people were supporting people in power currently or thinking the people they were electing were more qualified and were trying. The democratic party with their move to the right shows they don't. This inspires people to do it themselves. There is lots of self doubt and reflection in leftists lives. Someone can do it better someone is more experienced, more qualified, deserving or older. Until people drop the ball enough or rage and revolutionary fires are sparked that is when people do things.
I studied politics, and even then I never wanted to run. I just wanted to be a staffer and work on policy and tactics.
I left politics because I felt I couldn't help people, and inter party politics were not something I was interested in. I went back to school so I could help people more directly as a nurse.
I don't think I'm a great candidate, but I feel like I have to do something. No one is coming to save us, we have to so it ourselves.
The democrats are full of people wanting to do the right thing. They thought that since Harris won as VP, she was an easy out. She obviously wasn't.
Do you guys realize they they're trying to turn us against ourselves so that we don't notice that Trump said to not worry about the election months ago? He wasn't even trying in the last couple of weeks. They have been placing election officials for 4 years. They legally cheated with a fuck ton of propaganda coming from Russia.
Don't fall for the trap or I'm going to put you in with the republicans and democrats that sat this one out. You're being stooges.
I personally think that this election process was an eye opener to many people of what can happen when you decide to protest vote or believe in the faith of others. Now I doubt this many people will stay running for office but like it currently is, and believe this is an image movement more than anything, but like, I do think that it opened everyone's eyes (again) that maybe we shouldn't just sit around and do nothing and let others decide what our best interests are, because it rarely actually matches
Dormant.
The freedom fighters in history are my very favorite heroes. I have never wanted to be one. Electing competent leaders always seemed like a much better plan. I really hope I never have to put in the hard work of using my body to protect my loved ones and friends. I hate that I’m even having to think about this.
Electing competent leaders always seemed like a much better plan
Agreed. If only there had been any to choose from. Instead you get a choice between "maintain the fire burning down your house and sometimes stoke it" and "throw gasoline on it" 😮💨
except the microscopic level.
quantum level yes make it a fight there. levels above microscopic sure make it a fight there. But not microscopic level. we need at least one level where there's peace
My little microscopic sanctuary!
Hey good news, we can play a tug of war on the scale of states rights vs federal government rights. Test how strong can federalism resist tyranny of the federal government.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod-save-america/id1192761536?i=1000660405858
Lots of folks get inspired at different times in the country or in their lives. At 50 minutes is one particular story about Justin Douglas.
Like how “you are what you eat”, our country renews itself with a new generation feeling the call to action and actually running for something.
15 million people, including large swaths of Democrats and progressives, sat their asses out this election and gave us this avoidable fight.
Yeah, you're on your own to fix your own mess, count me out
So you’re going to sit your ass out?
Yup. Didn't have my back in the most critical fight of our lives and let a convicted felon, rapist, and racist and all of his fellow cronies back in, creating this giant fucking mess where you, and before you go all crazy, it's the collective you, gave the criminal, rapist, racist party a huge ass mandate with a crushing popular vote victory.
And now after throwing a petulant tantrum, come out and ask for my help to fix this mess your guys created? You wanted to teach America and Democrat a lesson, well congratulations to those 15 million voters +70 million voters, lesson learned.
I've learned that this nation is not better than this. I've learned that MLK's warnings about allies are correct. I've learned that this nation isn't worth my effort. I've learned Americans as a whole are worse than what George Carlin said they were. You all collectively fucked around and you and I who did the work, get to find out.
Yup, going to join those Americans value that were exposed this election and sit my ass out, fix yourselves first, I'm tired of being asked to save fair weather allies while being told I'm not American enough.
Are you leaving the country?
Wish I could. Looked last time Trump won, legal emigration is quite difficult if you're not rich. Didn't find a job that would sponsor and is a lot harder now with a more grown family. The only places I could more easily emigrate to, well they're less than ideal and is already what America has decided to become.
Maybe those people should have done something BEFORE Trump got reelected. Now it just won't matter anymore. They are just gonna be the first to go into the camps.
Don't give in to the despair that want to have. An authoritarian's greatest power lies less in their direct power and more in the hopelessness and culture of fear they want you to have. Self censorship is usually far stronger than direct censorship
They want you to never fight in any way, because you might reveal them to be weaker than you thought
Even if you are fighting a losing fight on a single issue, make it a fight! Everything you can drag out is time they can't spend making something else worse
Best time to start was DEFINITELY yesterday.
But the second-best time to start is still today. We have the advantage of being up against incompetents. That might buy us enough time to save ourselves. Might. But we won't know unless we fight for it.
I signed up on the first website, still haven't heard anything. Anyone know who I should contact to follow up?
They have an email contact at the bottom of their page hello@runforsomething.net
If you are just trying to figure out more what you can run for, the second site I linked is helpful for that
Given the large number of people signing up right now, I wouldn't be suprised if it took them a bit to reach out
Don't tell me what I can't do!
I'll be the smoke monster in a few seasons anyway.