I must sleep. Sleep is the mind-healer. Sleep is the big-life that brings total ability to fucking do anything. I will face my bed. I will permit the blankie to pass over me and snores to pass through me. And when sleep has gone past I will turn the outer eye to greet the new morning. When the sleep has gone there will be everything. Energy and will to live will remain.
Hey. Look at me. Please leave yourself a note somewhere you’ll see it later that says “it is going to take years if not decades to get the United States government to the level of functionality it had in November of 2024.” If we elect a democrat in 2028, we are not going to be up and running by 2032.
Please make sure you have a reminder in your phone reminding you to not look at 2028/32/36 Democratic candidates and say “why are they not promising/delivering Cool Shit?” because you are going to understand that to get Cool Shit we must have competent people running a decently funded government, and we are not going to have that.
We are not getting UBI. We are not getting single payer healthcare. We are not getting free college or free preschool. We are not redistributing wealth on a large scale. We are not getting free internet. We are not getting ranked choice voting.
If we are lucky, we are going to get an IRS that can collect taxes, qualified schoolteachers, research grants, Social Security, and a government that thinks maybe it should be a priority for people around the worlds to not have AIDS, malaria or TB.
To be clear, I don’t mean we should forget or take our eyes off the ultimate long-term goals of getting Cool Shit, but to get there, we’re gonna have to support things like “half-measures” and “small steps” and “not tearing down people who won’t get us all the way there” and “understanding that they are starting from the basement basically because every government institution is being decimated”
Yeah. Don’t refuse to vote for someone who isn’t going to get you where you want to be as fast as you want to be there - vote for someone who’s going to bail just a bit faster then we’re sinking, and we’ll get there someday.
Honestly, if we elect a Democrat in 2028 and by 2032 have reliable access to vaccines and potable water again, I’m going to count that as a win.
You do not understand how badly fucked the government was after Trump’s term. everything was understaffed. A lot was in flaming ruins already. We were looking at potentially decades of work to undo that.
And then Trump won again. And fired everyone, including me, who was trying to fix it.
We are shrimp colors of fucked right now. It is going to take so much fucking work to fix it.
Y'all CANNOT just throw in the towel again like you did with Biden last year. You can’t. Not if you’re serious about fixing shit and getting all the good stuff. Because when you do, you throw everyone else deeper in the hole and actively punish everyone who was trying to save your ass.
