DEVO – Freedom of Choice

Down to the wire. I have seen a couple of posts where people say things like, waiting for this election feels like waiting for biopsy results. That’s pretty good, though I’ve waited for biopsy results before and I am more anxious about the malignancy gripping Trumpers than my own test results.

Another metaphor I’ve heard a fair amount is that voting is like taking a bus. Are you going to get on the bus that goes close to your destination or one headed in a completely different direction? We have a two-party system. That isn’t going to change with this election.

When I see people declaring they aren’t voting, or worse, they’re voting for quadrennial grifter Jill Stein, I want to throttle them. We all know today’s Democrats are equivalent to center-right parties in other countries. But this has been a decades-long shift ever rightward, with the MAGA takeover of the Republican party completing their slide into fascism. We don’t recover from that by throwing in the towel because you don’t like the choices.

So here’s my metaphor. We are in a tug of war. The GOP has billionaires and literal Nazis grabbing on the end of their rope and that flag that used to be in the middle has been yanked so far to the right. We need everyone grabbing on to the end of our rope to pull it back to the center. If the lefties let go and walk away, we will lose. If they help us get the flag back to the middle, then we can keep pulling and drag the Dems further to the left. That’s the only way we can get there.