Voting is a cumulative effort. It really only works if more than just you vote. One vote is a pebble on a beach. A hundred million is a landslide. Getting discouraged because your one vote didn’t enact real lasting change is insanely prideful.
And just because nothings changed for you doesn’t mean it hasn’t changed for others. Theres hundreds of millions of people in the country, all with their own struggles and challenges. Just because you didn’t get yours doesn’t mean their hasn’t been positive (or negative) change.
Which is exactly the opposite message of all the GOTV efforts I’ve ever seen. I’m not saying don’t vote. I’m saying don’t make it such a huge fucking deal, and lower your expectations of what it’s actually going to get done.
I’m far, far less discouraged with this attitude than the one where I really, honestly believed something will happen because I filled in a box on a piece of paper.
Voting is a cumulative effort. It really only works if more than just you vote. One vote is a pebble on a beach. A hundred million is a landslide. Getting discouraged because your one vote didn’t enact real lasting change is insanely prideful.
And just because nothings changed for you doesn’t mean it hasn’t changed for others. Theres hundreds of millions of people in the country, all with their own struggles and challenges. Just because you didn’t get yours doesn’t mean their hasn’t been positive (or negative) change.
Which is exactly the opposite message of all the GOTV efforts I’ve ever seen. I’m not saying don’t vote. I’m saying don’t make it such a huge fucking deal, and lower your expectations of what it’s actually going to get done.
I’m far, far less discouraged with this attitude than the one where I really, honestly believed something will happen because I filled in a box on a piece of paper.