We have got 8 days until the 2020 election inside the US. That’s one other week all through which I’ll be attempting my damnedest to get leaders elected who will switch the dial in the direction of equity, inclusion, and progressive insurance coverage insurance policies that may do the least harm and the perfect good.
I like lists. I like checking points off of lists. I’d hazard the guess that loads of of us finding out this do, too. So, every Monday until November, I’ll be itemizing one specific movement to soak up preparation of the election. Electoral politics acquired’t clear up all of the items, nonetheless voting is a instrument inside the area and it have to be sharpened, oiled, and ready for movement.
Week Fourteen: Vote and…
I voted.
Saturday was the first day of early voting in New York so I marched myself proper all the way down to my early voting polling place and stood in line to solid my vote. The highway was prolonged. It snaked and switchbacked down blocks and spherical corners, nonetheless it moved swiftly enough that no person appeared to ideas. Really, I didn’t. Like me, my line-mates had drained eyes above masked noses and mouths. The mood inside the air was determined if not exactly joyful. We stood six-feet-apart as an October breeze swirled tiny golden locust leaves spherical our toes and the highway grew longer.
After I voted for president in 2016, Faye bought right here with me. I was vastly pregnant with Silas nonetheless come what may nearly floating. I keep in mind guffawing with delight and anticipation as Faye perched on my hip and I stuffed out my paper ballot. I didn’t actually really feel that method this time spherical, nonetheless I’m reminded of the message Gloria Steinem despatched that day, which nonetheless rings true: “Voting isn’t primarily probably the most we’re in a position to do, nonetheless it is the least.”
It does not matter what happens subsequent week or inside the weeks to return, there’ll most likely be work to proceed. Throughout the meantime, please, please, please do the least you can and vote.
And don’t neglect:
+ Vote progressive.
+ Report voter intimidation.
+ Study your registration.
+ Make a voting plan.
+ Look earlier the presidency.
+ Phone a superb pal.
+ Current up.