What now???
With a week and a half remaining in the most important election in history, we all know where our primary focus needs to be. It’s all about getting the word out, getting the vote out, and leaving nothing on the field. We have ten days left in the fight of our lives. As Tim Walz said, we can sleep when we’re dead.
But there’s also the question of what happens after the election. When you’re coming up near the end of anything, no matter how focused you are, there’s always that odd moment before you fall asleep where you start thinking about the big picture. Life beyond the current moment. What happens after this? What’s the next stage of all this? And I’ve been chewing on that just a little bit lately.
I don’t have a lot of thoughts on what would happen if Trump wins, because I don’t care to waste time entertaining such a scenario. Suffice it to say that I would stay here fighting with all of you until the bitter end. Beyond that I’m not interested in thinking about it.
I am intrigued at what this might all look like if Kamala wins. When you’re trying to find the energy to keep fighting down the stretch, sometimes it’s good to remind yourself of what the reward will look like. I think I can say without hyperbole that it would be one of the greatest, most meaningful, and most important victories in the history of the human race, for a number of combined reasons that I don’t have to spell out. But it also wouldn’t be the end. It would be the beginning.
Half the point of getting Kamala elected is to finally finish off Trump and his desire for dictatorship. The other half the point of getting Kamala elected is all the good she can do once in office. And so I for one intend to stick around and help clear a path so that she can accomplish what she’s looking to accomplish. There will be opposition (hopefully in a minority), there will be lies, there will be the same kind of nonsense that right wingers have been trying to bring to the table for 250 years. If Kamala wins it’ll be a whole new kind of battle. It’ll be just the battle we want, on our terms. The kind of battle where you’re piling up the good instead of fending off the bad. And I hope you’ll all stick around for it, because it’ll be a lot more fun than these past nine years of fending off the worst person in the world.
But in order to get to that much more favorable and enjoyable battle, we first have to win the current ugly battle. Ten more days to go. I plead with you, don’t sit back and hope the election goes our way. Spend these final days getting as many like minded people to vote as possible. Look around, not just online, but in your personal circle. Don’t assume your liberal cousin in a swing state is going to remember to vote. Reach out. Make sure every vote happens. Ten more days of slogging through hell, and then we get to build a new world.
