If you were eligible to vote and either voted or attempted to put your vote in? GOOD JOB.
As someone who always has to vote (whether the politicians and parties are shit) and who lives in the equivalent of a DEEPLY CONSERVATIVE STATE - it's in the top ten conservative electorates in Australia - I am exceedingly proud of you for getting out and putting your chip in, most particularly if you had to walk there, wait there, overcome your mental state, and especially if you had to put a vote in somewhere where you knew it wasn't actually going to make a difference in the direction you wanted.
As someone who always has to vote (whether the politicians and parties are shit) and who lives in the equivalent of a DEEPLY CONSERVATIVE STATE - it's in the top ten conservative electorates in Australia - I am exceedingly proud of you for getting out and putting your chip in, most particularly if you had to walk there, wait there, overcome your mental state, and especially if you had to put a vote in somewhere where you knew it wasn't actually going to make a difference in the direction you wanted.
This is not a sprint. It is a relay marathon. If you can run a major leg, awesome. If you can help organize the marathon, awesome. If you can coordinate the people running, awesome. If you can hand out bottled water along the route, awesome. If you can cheer along the way, awesome. If you can remind people that the marathon is happening, awesome. It’s not about great heroes or one person doing it all or one climactic battle in which everything magically gets fixed.
It’s about ordinary people doing what they can. What you can do right now is vote. What you do on November 7 and the months and years following (no matter who wins the election) is stay involved and stay working.
The stories our world tells us are about Great Heroic Struggles With Triumphant Climaxes In Which Good Vanquishes Evil And They All Live Happily Ever After. Problem is, that’s not how the world actually works bybeatrice_otter