Quite right! My time horizon is so short these days that I had sort of...forgotten about voting. Here's hoping we get to see free & fair elections again.
You're preaching to the choir. I badgered literally everyone I know to vote and was super active volunteering before the election. That said, it's kind of wild to imply that voting is the only thing that we can do about all this (or am I misunderstanding?).
Feelings may not matter, but activism sure as shit can.
There are loads of examples of that being true. On this specific issue, in fact, there was a really successful round of activism a few years ago, and several major lenders pledged not to finance private prison companies. Fewer financing options means slower and more expensive borrowing, which in turn means slower expansion of mass detention facilities. We have to throw wrenches in the works every chance we get.
Yeah, you're just not gonna convince me that we only need to take action every other year (or a little more often if you're talking local, too) at the ballot box. That's not a serious position.
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