well the problem is that there's no leader, no one is being told what to DO besides "vote," so it's psychologically much easier to deny anything's hapening than to just panic 24/7.
I'm definitely not saying to hide info, people do need to know, but I don't see what the knowledge is leading to.
Maybe this just counts as voting, but I think sublimating your panic into volunteering for your closest swing House race or Senate race might help! It's helped some of my friends.
right, I have my own to-do list, and we'll have to help others formulate their own. Because that's most of what the panic is about. When you have direction and clarity of purpose it gets a LOT easier.
(I'm also not dismissing voting, I just don't want to get bogged down in Discourse over it)
Good on you for stepping out beyond the usual rhetoric. I’m in California and I will vote, but my vote does not count. So I have to think of something else to throw sand in the gears.
Mass protests, angry calls to elected officials, be pests, demand better. Get creative with direct action and lawsuits if you are capable. We're in real bad shape
I have experience with a lot of those things (not lawsuits) though disability has seriously hampered my participation in recent years. I think we're going to have to hold a lot of people's hands through this because they don't have any previous experience being marginalized.
to be clear I'm not saying you are doing anything wrong! I really appreciate all the work you do. I'm just trying to think through what we do with all the people who are just now realizing how awful things are (or are about to get) but have no direction, so instead they either panic or shut down.
No I totally understand ❤️ don't worry!! It's really hard and discouraging but if we all work together we can fuck them UP. If that wasn't the case they wouldnt have circulated all these lies to divide us and make us scared to gather
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Here’s something we can do: We know that half of the people don’t vote. They need motivation. They don’t know what Project 2025 is. Study it a bit, and just start asking people if they have heard about it. No? Give a two minute summary and say, I am voting against it in Nov. are you registered yet?
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