for a quick change of pace–i know we’ve all seen a thousand posts about voting, but what i haven’t seen (not yet) is one saying thank you.
thank you for those who made it out in the rain and the cold, who organized and canvassed and took on the onerous task of working with non-voting & conservative friends/family to change their stance if at least just this once. thank you for those who stood in line for hours, who had to travel because your voting place was moved, who had to jump through ridiculous fucking hoops to register, who weren’t inspired but showed up anyway for the disenfranchised and the greater good. thank you as well to everyone who voted early, absentee, and provisional.
it mattered.
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This could be articulated better but like… i think one of the worst things to happen with trump is that people have identified him as like the only evil going on in the world and rather than look at issues in general as they’ve existed before his presidency or in other countries… its all just trump.
An example would be canadians patting themselves on the back because of trumps immigration policies when we have a shitty record with immigration detention, treatment of refugees etc. And unjust deportations are happening like right now in Canada. Its not.. a past thing.
Or the british people staging these protests against trumps uk visit when its pretty gd awful itself.
Everyone focuses on trump because its obvious and easy and requires honestly very limited critical thinking because he’s like a caricature of evil and they get their “feel-good” moments from taking a stand against him when its literally the easiest thing to do and then ignore literally everything else going on around them, stuff that’s been going on long before trump, because that stuff requires more effort, or more self-reflection or more critical engagement..
Speak on it!
just popping in at four am to say being gay is one of the most healing things ive ever encountered??? aside from external bigotry, focusing on internal and interpersonal growth, it has been such a cleansing and enriching process – to be in gay love and have gay friendships and to just slowly drift farther and farther away from the toxic waste sludge that is straightness has been eye opening and rewarding on a level i didnt think possible. being gay is good 4 the mind, good 4 the soul, good night
And democracy requires compromise, even when you are 100 percent right. This is hard to explain sometimes. You can be completely right, and you still are going to have to engage folks who disagree with you. If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral purity, but you’re not going to get what you want. And if you don’t get what you want long enough, you will eventually think the whole system is rigged. And that will lead to more cynicism, and less participation, and a downward spiral of more injustice and more anger and more despair. And that’s never been the source of our progress. That’s how we cheat ourselves of progress.
Obama’s full remarks at Howard University commencement ceremony – POLITICO (via apsies)
If you think that the only way forward is to be as uncompromising as possible, you will feel good about yourself, you will enjoy a certain moral purity, but you’re not going to get what you want.
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We will never have another as good and smart as this man.
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