lazaefair:

ladypolaris:

justlookfrightened:

kawuli:

astrond:

Vote!  Because all our futures depend on it.

In 2008 INDIANA went for Obama.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

Vote them out or they will kill us

And yeah, we know the Democratic Party is not some kind of righteous savior party. Yeah, there are plenty of capitalists, centrists, Liberal White Allies ™ in the party. But they’re still genuinely better than the Republican Party, and closer to the end of the spectrum that we want to move everyone to. Parties can change – if you show up to change them.

Let me put it this way – you don’t want to vote, you want a revolution instead? Revolutions are unbelievably violent, unimaginably violent, on a scale no living Americans have ever experienced unless they’ve been in an actual, literal war zone. Most of us would most likely die in a revolution. I’m not interested in diving headfirst into that. And historically, revolutions never end in utopia. They end in chaos that causes most people to hit their fear-driven authoritarian thresholds and turn towards strongmen to tame the chaos, and that always ends in warlords and political coups and worse dictators than before. 

(“But here’s some advice, boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.” – Yes, thank you as always, Sir Terry Pratchett.)

We teach all the wrong lessons about the American Revolutionary War. The real revolution, the earth-shaking part of it, wasn’t the fighting or the war or the killing. That’s just the bloody rhythm of human history. No. It was when they set up a system of government that handled power transfer peacefully through elections and stuck to it. It was when George Washington definitively and witheringly rejected any notion of being crowned king. It was when he stepped down after two terms when he probably could’ve coasted for a lifetime. And it was when he handed power to the next president peacefully, willingly, and as a required function of the system of government they were part of. Voting IS the revolution.