Connect! Unite! Act! We can't gamble with our future
Connect! Unite! Act! is a weekly series encouraging the creation of face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups meet to socialize, support candidates, get out the vote, and engage in other local political actions that help our progressive movement grow and exert maximum influence on the powers that be. Visit us every week to see how you can get involved!
Every time we get near an Election Day, I hear the phrase: “This is the most important election of your life!” I have heard this for decades. Do you want to know the truth? It is. And it has been every single time I’ve heard it. Every two years, more divisive, troubling candidates are put forward, aimed at pushing our government further and further to the extremist right. Courts. Laws. State houses and state Supreme Courts that run out of control and against the wishes of the majority in their own state. How does this keep happening? Because too many progressives gamble that others will vote and things will just turn out right. Or, heck, if we hold the White House, can’t the worst be stopped and then it just doesn’t matter? In fact, there is an incredible amount of damage being done every day in state houses, state courts, through county prosecutors offices and local sheriffs. Yet every election, people vote in one race, maybe another, but they don’t go through the ballot and make sure that they have voted for the right candidates in all of the races needed to prevent a disaster to our democracy. It’s a gamble, and it has to stop.