Im going to repeat the message I often give to frustrated progressives, but this time for all democrats:

Change doesnt come quickly. It is a process, not an event. This election has hopefully advanced us a step. We stick with massive voting, every time, change continues. Then...

...at some point, like digging slowly through the wall, you hit a tipping point and change occurs rapidly.

Trumpism took over this country because there were things that preexisted in this country that allowed it to fester: Racism, white grievance, disinformation, loss.../2

...of agreed concepts of reality, which has allowed for the reality of who democrats are to be completely fictionalized. (Talk to @davidmweissman - a former Trump voter now democrat - about how the conservative bubble creates a fantasy view of what democrats are.) We are..../3

...also up against monied interests that are incomprehensibly greedy, and use their wealth to try and deceive others about what is reality. This must be chipped away, one election at a time. Far too often, I have seen democrats lead in to an election expecting landlisdes.../4

...then getting disappointed when it is only victory. If we win the presidency and not the senate? Then we know what the next fight is - 2022. It is something in the democratic brain that allows victory to be seen as loss. It happens constantly. If Biden wins, we won. If we.../5

...gained seats in the senate but no majority, we won. We'll shoot for the majority next time - 2022 - which is exactly what GOP did for the Senate after 2008, winning a few more every election until they had the majority.

Again, progress is a process. You must take the.../6

...the initial steps, improving each time, till you have the breakthrough. This is why I keep encouraging progressives to vote for the option most likely to be a step toward their goal, because if they become an electoral force, they cant be ignored. "Protest vote" insures...

...powerlessness. It guarantees no one will hear you.

Democrats dont vote enough. We have demographics on our side, but we still dont vote because we think we understand this country. No one does.

No one will just give us a just society, no one will just wave a wand...

...and counter racism, voter suppression, and all our evils. If you care about these, keep voting. When you stop voting, you help evil fester and grow. The demographics prove: We will win. We will have a landslide. Just not all in one election.

So vote. Every election.

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