jadia-hell-hound:

erynaceous-in-hiding:

katherynefromphilly:

protego-et-servio:

The point of voting blue in 2018 isn’t to make the US perfect. We cannot accomplish that in one fell swoop. There’s gerrymandering, voter apathy, voter suppression, and generations of older party-line fucks we have to deal with.

Voting blue in 2018 is to make it less immediately threatening for PoC, LGBT+ people, the disabled, and any other marginalized demographic. It’s a stopgap against Republicans who are aligned with Nazis, white supremacists, and sexual abusers.

Correcting politics in the United States is going to take decades of new voters staying on top of politics and not falling prey to apathy, like our predecessors. 

People telling you not to waste a vote on 3rd Party this midterm aren’t saying “never vote 3rd party.” Republicans have united behind one utterly heinous front. We need to unite behind Democrats, for the time being.

Repeating this key sentence:

“Voting blue in 2018 is to make it less immediately threatening for PoC, LGBT+ people, the disabled, and any other marginalized demographic [WOMEN]. It’s a stopgap against Republicans who are aligned with Nazis, white supremacists, and sexual abusers.”

Reblogging in the memory of everyone who said to me, 2 years ago, “how much damage can he do?” and “it’s like choosing the lesser of two evils” and “you’re overreacting” and “he won’t get elected it’ll never happen”.

In the same vein, if you had the ability to vote and didn’t vote, you are supporting transphobia, racism, sexism, homophobia, and overall racism isn’t something worth getting up and voting out

Like let’s be clear, if you had the ability to vote and didn’t, you absolutely played a role in all of the terrible shit republicans are gonna do and don’t fucking try to pretend you aren’t

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How do you play a part in something you weren’t involved in? A bystander does not a bad guy make, and even if it does, calling people who don’t want to vote “transphobic, racist, sexist, homophobic, and… racist” isn’t going to make them suddenly jump out of their pajamas and go vote for whatever (Against Republicans, I assume?) It just makes those terms less and less and less meaningful, until they’re white noise being haplessly thrown together.

Listen, I know this means a lot to you. I can’t relate but I empathize. it’s terrifying times, these days. But trying to call people increasingly meaningless names didn’t work out in your favor in 2016, and if you keep doing the same thing, Well, nothing is going to change.

If you could just stop saying things like that, maybe try using their plans and intended programs as talking points for why you should vote for them, instead of berating them like a dog who’s pissed on the floor. But, knowing my luck you won’t listen. I tried.

(Also, moving this off my main account, sorry for repeating.)