TO: My liberal friends
SUBJECT: Choice
I see a lot of rage in my feed, and I totally get it.
I would humbly and politely advise you on this matter, if you care to receive advise. If not, again, I totally get it.
So, my advise:
1) Don't try to reason with or argue with people who think Barak Obama was born in Kenya, or was a Muslim, or a terrorist. Don't try to reason with people who think Covid doesn't exist, or Jan 6 was Antifa (in white-face?) trying to frame good conservatives. (I could actually go on for paragraphs like this, but you get the idea) It's a complete waste of your time and energy, and none of us have either of those things in infinite supply.
2) In dividing into "us and them", be careful where you draw your lines. A lot of men are on your side, and a lot of women are against you. Giving in to the temptation to make this about men oppressing you misses some very important aspects of the battle.
3) Voting is not going to fix this. If your vote mattered, Neither Trump nor W would have ever have been president.
4) Related to #3, but worthy of it's own bullet: Quit focusing on the next election. You need a sort of meta-political organization or movement to effect the following changes:
A) There must be a penalty for propaganda (SLOGAN ideas: "Make lying wrong again", or "CHRISTIANS: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor"). There is really good money to be made telling conservatives the lies they want to hear, and far from having any negative consequences, they're actually laughing all the way to the bank.
B) Make liberal votes actually matter
C) Do something about the political organizations masquerading as religious organizations that sit on corner-lots throughout our towns and cities. Yes, they're going to howl. When do they not?
None of that involves a candidate or an election, per-se.
Conservative senators abused their power to block judges appointed by a duly elected president, and then "values voters" allied with the first man to put a strip club in a casino to finally overturn #RoeVsWade. There is every indication that most of them were willing to go as far as refusing the peaceful transition of power that our nation is built on to get what they want. Your liberal leaders are too weak and useless to deal with a party that appears quite willing to burn the world down to get what it wants. Your leaders have been out-maneuvered or overpowered at every turn, even when they're briefly in the majority. Putting your faith in the current system, or deceiving yourself to think that your voice matters AT ALL, will only produce a continued slide towards totalitarianism.
Where you gonna get your power?
