As with all my stories, this is brought to you by groups encouraging massive youth voting, including Civic Influencers to help college voter activism and The Civics Center for high school students.
You all deserve credit for the cataclysmic events of this week.
None of them would have happened without your vote and your work in 2020.
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In May I wrote It's Time to Fully Appreciate the Miracles of November 3, 2020 and January 5, 2021.
How much more is that true today? Without you and your work, a traitorous regime would be in the process of selling the United States out to Russia, China or Saudi Arabia, corruptly enriching family members, stripping rights from LBGTQ people, BIPOC, and women (yes that happened, but as a legacy of the past corrupt regime). There would be no KBJ on the Supreme Court. No actual infrastructure bill. No American Rescue Plan.
Only because of our votes and our work leading up to November 3, 2020 and January 5, 2021 (in GA) could any of these have happened at all:
- Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, including massive climate and healthcare provisions
- Passage of the Chips Act to revive manufacturing
- Seizure of Donald Trump’s records in connection with criminal investigation for espionage, obstruction of justice and removal or destruction of records
- Alex Jones’ phone records turned over to the January 6 Committee (what Jan. 6 Committee?)
This may seem obvious, but don’t forget that almost every one of those 81 million votes was needed, given the close races in five states and the electoral college.
From November 2016 to November 2020, we were constantly asking “What if” — What if: Comey hadn’t intervened; What if the media hadn’t grotesquely exploited “her emails’ and “Clinton Foundation”; What if the media had done remotely the same with Trump University, Trump’s embrace of the likes of Alex Jones, the child rape lawsuit against Trump and Epstein et al.; What if Russia had not hacked the DNC; What if the media covered that for the crime it was rather than the harmless content.
Well, it’s time to turn the “What ifs” around and appreciate what we have because of what we did:
We went to the polls — in cold, rain or heat; or mailed or dropped off our ballots — all before the Vaccine. Before that, we phone-banked, sent postcards to voters, text-banked, contributed, canvassed.
It’s time for the heroes to go to work again.