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Yes, yes, vote blue no matter who, I know.
But that doesn't mean I like it.
The Moral Majority remade the GOP in the 1970s and 1980s with a grassroots campaign. If the normal attendance at a local GOP clubhouse was twenty people, the MMs would show up with fifty. They started getting county clerks and sheriffs elected, and soon the Party realized they were dependent on Falwell and his church people.
The Right works 24/7/365 while the Left acts like they are heroes if they vote at all.
A lot of those people are literally getting paid to do their "grassroots" advocacy. It's not because the average conservative voter is more dedicated or more passionate, it's because their activists (and sometimes literal actors) have been funded by a variety of billionaires for decades.
When the Unions were getting started the bosses paid to have strikebreakers bust heads.
I doubt there are fifty people who agree with me in the entire country.
I'm resigned to being miserable. Don't do that. Don't give me hope.
Sometimes hope is what we need to keep going in what looks like an insurmountable challenge. It's simply a way to motivate people. Conservatives have used hope to motivate their base. Conservative voters are willing to show up because they have hope that they can change our society (in a negative way, for the record) using the political process. They have been wildly successful at that. We can harness the same resources and use it against them. Only we can theoretically do it better, because we have the most important thing: numbers.
It's up to all of us to step up, show leadership ourselves, and grind this shit out. We have to fight the GOP, a good deal of Democratic Party leadership, and the media every single day. We have to work primary campaigns, push out moderates in the primaries, and remove every GOP member possible during general elections. And we have to do it for decades. It works. It has worked before. I don't care if we're motivated by hope, hate, or hunger. We just need to stay motivated.
It took the GOP fifty years to kill Roe V. Wade. Like I said, they worked 24/7. If you think you're the only person who thinks like you then you're as egotistical as the guy who thinks everyone agrees with him
Bye bye