I'm haunted by President Obama's words at the DNC: "Whatever you have done so far, it's not enough."
But here's what I'm proud of. Here's what I cling to:
I handwrote 345 postcards to registered Democrats in 12 different states.
Yes, I did that. Yes, it caused a callous.
I comfort myself that while the other side spews venom, conspiracies and lies about Joe on social media, they are likely just "preaching to the choir." (An ironic phrase, when you consider how many of these smut peddlers claim to be Christian.) I delivered facts about voter registration, facts about vote by mail, facts about online resources to guide voters to their polling places.
I feel good about what I've done. I just pray it's enough. Tonight Amy Coney Barrett has been installed to do what Donald Trump obviously expects her to do: rule in his favor after he loses at the ballot box. Now maybe she'll do the right thing and recuse herself when the time comes. Or maybe she'll behave like a jurist and not a political hack. (It is so possible! Look at Justice John Roberts.)
So the vote has to be decisive. I like thinking that one of my postcards is stuck with a magnet to a refrigerator somewhere, reminding the recipient that early voting has started in her district and here's her chance to GRAB HIM BY THE BALLOT!
Go, Joe, go. As Paul Simon sang about another Joe, "Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you." Rescue us!
You're right....They are just preaching to the choir. It's the nature of this beast. And it really is a beast.
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ReplyDeleteGood for you! I donated much more than I did to HRC. I wanted to do postcards but my local Dem party could not tell me how to do that, although I saw on Bill Maher last night that I should have checked Joe Biden's site for phone calls. Maybe he had post cards, too. (My local party is fairly non-existent here in my brilliant red county.) And I voted. And took a few other people to vote.
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