It's time to become those cool adults you nostaligally reminisce about from the 60's, who led groups of friends on sign-wielding protests, and fabricated puppet shows and kite festivals.
We've got opportunities to be cool, really live our values, embody everything we admire.
Bike parades are cool but we need to rally around one strong central message, as progressive Democrats, or whatever party affiliation you'd rather label yourself as. Whatever box you check to identify yourself, and whatever labels you slap on others, with or without intentionality, judgment, etc., the real boxes that need to get checked, the only ones that really matter, are the goddam ballots.
Vote! Make your friends vote! No Coronavirus vaccine until you have voted.
Yes, it should be compulsory and started when you're 16. Not vaccinations -- votes! Votes should be required... really Fern? No. I take that back. Aaaargh.
Policy decisions are difficult, so also, let's give politicians a break, they're trying, they're like Amy Howard and David Faber, Kris Nelson, David King, Deb Stinson, Michelle Sandoval, Pam Petranik, Dave Thompson, Brad Clinefelter, and that tall guy at the Port Commission meetings. These are people we know around town, they see us and we can talk to them and we should. Anyone who runs for office is inherently kind of a douchebag, we all get it, but also some are pretty cool people nonetheless and they're just trying to help, and being a dweeb is also one of the important roles in the highschool hierarchy that is our community existence, weird clothed apes running around wearing electronic cars. Anyway, I wish people would be weirder, in public in reality, not just protesting which is great but also, like, sing, in public, in groups, and play more music, and be weird together loudly yelling while dancing, and waving your arms around, and if I was going to make a poster it would be 10 posters and I don't know what they would all say. But maybe, "arms not war," and "hug your neighbor even if it makes you sick," and "you're awesome but shut up about it" and "i love you, do i have to hear you talk so much?" and "speak your truth quietly and clearly" and "five minutes!" and "v" and "o" and "t" and "e."
So, should we make voting compulsory?
No, because nothing political should be compulsory.
Yes, because if you tie it to government services like school or libraries then people would maybe just do it, but if you tie it to medical care or social services like food, then that's wrong and bad because people actually need medical services and food, but they don't actually need schools or libraries.
By the way: food should be separate from schools. And so should sports.
By the way: the government should be expected to pay for medical care, and all the health care systems should be completely socialized, under some large federal department, except -- and this is important -- states should be the state, department holders.
The state department should be re-named as the country department, because it drives me fucking crazy that the word state means so many different things.
Aaaargh!
Fuck Jim Scarantino! You would lose if we played chess except that's not true, you'd probably win because fuck chess. J.S. and I probbly did play chess once, in that PT chess club that Dennis ran. That was fun.
What were wea talking about?
We've got opportunities to be cool, really live our values, embody everything we admire.
Bike parades are cool but we need to rally around one strong central message, as progressive Democrats, or whatever party affiliation you'd rather label yourself as. Whatever box you check to identify yourself, and whatever labels you slap on others, with or without intentionality, judgment, etc., the real boxes that need to get checked, the only ones that really matter, are the goddam ballots.
Vote! Make your friends vote! No Coronavirus vaccine until you have voted.
Yes, it should be compulsory and started when you're 16. Not vaccinations -- votes! Votes should be required... really Fern? No. I take that back. Aaaargh.
Policy decisions are difficult, so also, let's give politicians a break, they're trying, they're like Amy Howard and David Faber, Kris Nelson, David King, Deb Stinson, Michelle Sandoval, Pam Petranik, Dave Thompson, Brad Clinefelter, and that tall guy at the Port Commission meetings. These are people we know around town, they see us and we can talk to them and we should. Anyone who runs for office is inherently kind of a douchebag, we all get it, but also some are pretty cool people nonetheless and they're just trying to help, and being a dweeb is also one of the important roles in the highschool hierarchy that is our community existence, weird clothed apes running around wearing electronic cars. Anyway, I wish people would be weirder, in public in reality, not just protesting which is great but also, like, sing, in public, in groups, and play more music, and be weird together loudly yelling while dancing, and waving your arms around, and if I was going to make a poster it would be 10 posters and I don't know what they would all say. But maybe, "arms not war," and "hug your neighbor even if it makes you sick," and "you're awesome but shut up about it" and "i love you, do i have to hear you talk so much?" and "speak your truth quietly and clearly" and "five minutes!" and "v" and "o" and "t" and "e."
So, should we make voting compulsory?
No, because nothing political should be compulsory.
Yes, because if you tie it to government services like school or libraries then people would maybe just do it, but if you tie it to medical care or social services like food, then that's wrong and bad because people actually need medical services and food, but they don't actually need schools or libraries.
By the way: food should be separate from schools. And so should sports.
By the way: the government should be expected to pay for medical care, and all the health care systems should be completely socialized, under some large federal department, except -- and this is important -- states should be the state, department holders.
The state department should be re-named as the country department, because it drives me fucking crazy that the word state means so many different things.
Aaaargh!
Fuck Jim Scarantino! You would lose if we played chess except that's not true, you'd probably win because fuck chess. J.S. and I probbly did play chess once, in that PT chess club that Dennis ran. That was fun.
What were wea talking about?