The scariest thing I have seen this Halloween is a bunch of privileged white kids rattling off excuse after excuse for why they’re willing to help a fascist regime entrench itself. Jesus Christ we’re fucked.
One of them was like “can’t, adhd, too hard” and like…yeah, it can be. It can be anxiety inducing and awful and negative, but when the stakes are this high you collect your spoons and you go and DO THE THING.
If you don’t care enough to vote for yourself, vote for everyone else. Vote for the oppressed minorities who have no choice but to keep showing up to vote because otherwise they might lose their damn rights, vote for those who have had their rights to vote stripped from them. Whatever you gotta do.
Vote.
but when the stakes are this high you collect your spoons and you go and DO THE THING.
When the stakes are this high you take your spoons and you sharpen them into knives and you GO AND DO THE THING
if you’re voting for the first time, here’s a video that walks you through what it’s like to vote so you know what to expect. Here’s a website that helps you choose your candidates (when you take the quiz, you don’t have to answer all the questions if you don’t want). Here’s another. Go here to preview your ballot and look up your polling place. (although when I looked mine up, it didn’t include all the referendums. I found them on the local library website after googling). Also note that you don’t have to vote for every race. If you don’t know who/what to vote for in a particular race, you can leave it blank.
My adhd is terrible. I can’t keep information in my head that I don’t care about. I just can’t do it, and thus I find it really difficult to ever actually learn anything about politics or world affairs. I can read about it all I want, but half the time, it’s just white noise, and even when it’s not, it just doesn’t stick, so i’ll probably never be particularly knowledgeable wrt such things. But I do make the effort to spend an evening before the election researching the candidates, and then, if I need to, writing down who all/what all I’m voting for in the notepad app on my phone. Will I forget all of the information afterwards? Absolutely. Would I be at all able to explain to someone in depth why I voted for a particular candidate? Probably not, but I also don’t have to. The important thing is to vote. If you think you’re too stupid to vote and don’t, remember that they’re someone else out there even dumber than you doing it.
Please vote. You can.
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