Election fallout
Nov. 12th, 2018 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
technocracygirlI'm kind of glad I didn't write this earlier, since I was feeling really bummed out the day after, and now, things are looking much better.
On the personal front, the candidate I was out stumping for, Kim Schrier, won, and won very well. W00t! The last day of phone banking had over 150 people there, including one lady who'd come down from Bellingham. This was a phone bank in north Seattle, so most of us weren't district 8 people, just folks who were really into flipping the district. And it happened! Yay!
I think the best take, overall, comes from Gin and Tacos: I Know Why You're Sad. Basically, what a lot of people (me included) was a repudiation of fascism, racism, misogyny, antisemitism, white nationalism, aand all the other "ism"s on display in the current Republican party. What we got was subpeona power, the power to block a lot of the worst impulses of the Republican party, and confirmation that this is an extremely divided country, and that rift is severe and serious.
I am scared. But I was talking with my mom the other night, and she is ready to go out to the streets. Because, as she put it, "There is no safe place for Jews anymore." And if there is no place where we can trust to be safe, well, we have to fight (along with a lot of others) to bring that safety back.
I will not forget. I will be out stumping in 2020, and I will find other ways to support organizations doing good work before then.
On the personal front, the candidate I was out stumping for, Kim Schrier, won, and won very well. W00t! The last day of phone banking had over 150 people there, including one lady who'd come down from Bellingham. This was a phone bank in north Seattle, so most of us weren't district 8 people, just folks who were really into flipping the district. And it happened! Yay!
I think the best take, overall, comes from Gin and Tacos: I Know Why You're Sad. Basically, what a lot of people (me included) was a repudiation of fascism, racism, misogyny, antisemitism, white nationalism, aand all the other "ism"s on display in the current Republican party. What we got was subpeona power, the power to block a lot of the worst impulses of the Republican party, and confirmation that this is an extremely divided country, and that rift is severe and serious.
I am scared. But I was talking with my mom the other night, and she is ready to go out to the streets. Because, as she put it, "There is no safe place for Jews anymore." And if there is no place where we can trust to be safe, well, we have to fight (along with a lot of others) to bring that safety back.
I will not forget. I will be out stumping in 2020, and I will find other ways to support organizations doing good work before then.
