This nailbiter of an election has me exhausted.
I work as a poll worker in NYS and on election day, I get up at 3am, get to the poll site by 5am, and get home at 11-midnight. During that time I see so many people in my red/blue mashup I cannot tell
if I live in a red or a blue area. Invariably (for the last few election at least), its been
very depressing to wake up in the morning and find out I live in a red district. They tell me its red because they won (by 6 votes one time). But I know the truth — there are more of us than them. And that is not comforting to me. Because there are a lot of them. More than 50% of all voters is them — often.
So, when I read that GA or AZ is ‘blue’, it is not comforting to me. Because I know, if I were to drive down there, I would see a lot of ‘them’. Insurrectionists, racists, classists — all kinds of people who dont agree with me about how government should be run.
It is cold comfort that we outnumber them if we never win at the polls.
It is only marginally better if we do win at the polls but by a small margin.
I want to live in a community where a significant majority feel as I do — that government is of the people and by the people and for the people.
I want to live in a deep blue district where there are good roads, public transport, social safety nets, etc.
I want to live in a district that is so blue, its white hot.
And I want every district near mine to be white hot.
In fact I never want anybody to be forced to endure living in a red district. Every district should be white hot.
How do we get there? By just passing a sh*t-ton of legislation. Just legislate away. Anything and everything everybody thinks is a good idea. Throw it on the wall and see if it sticks. But — one exception. No time spent renaming things. I want to hear that this was the most heartless congress ever — didnt rename a single postoffice — too busy delivering services and fixing serious problems.
Bill Clinton once said, ‘the greatest thing about being president is you can walk and chew gum at the same time’. So lets go. I want me some Dark Brandon Action. I want a new bill on the floor each week and each week I want last weeks bill passed . Make them dizzy. Cancel recesses. Get It Done.
Sorry for the incoherent rambling.
The main rant here is: just because we won a seat by less than 1% does not mean we ‘turned’ a state/district blue. That, to me is as silly as the other side claiming that dirt votes. We have a lot of
work to do before really turning the map blue.