2020 was… truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn’t get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision for America.
My point is that looking back on it, in the end the only real difference I made was at the ballet box. This year I’m going for the Head-in-the-Sand approach. I’m done with the political memes. Done with the Twitter screenshots. It just riles me up and this year I’m gonna do my best to fight that.
Don’t vote for a perfect choice; vote for the best choice, and keep doing it. You’re not going to get ‘perfect’ right now, but excising actual cancer will improve the long-term health of the beast and enable even better choices in a few iterations.
There are more then two choices on the ballot.
First Past the Post says “Sorry, but no”
Support ranked choice voting first. Once we have that, a huge portion of the power the two parties have will fall away
And that is exactly why ranked choice voting will never happen along with universal healthcare, or not funding endless war and genocide.