I’m still on the phone with Comcast—blogging from my phone. So—a re-run from Facebook:
I don’t often make “lecture-y” posts, but I was listening to my fave podcast (Harmontown) and I was thinking about how important a message I’ve offered before– that I think we cannot stress enough– is a year into the Trump era. That message is this: the era of slacktivism led to catastrophe, so you need get your shit together and do something if you care about the future of this country.
The problem we face now is that in the backlash of all the nastiness and the bad political moves we’ve seen this year, there’s plenty of talk. But talk is cheap. Super cheap. Like… worthless.
If you care about making a change, you need to do three things:
1. Get involved locally and work up instead of throwing your hands up and waiting for national elections
2. Act more and talk less. I realize I am saying that IN a Facebook post, but if you post stuff all the time about political issues that’s great, but you need to actually DO stuff. And sometimes doing stuff is as simple as paying the extra $5 on the person in front of you’s grocery order, or helping push a car out of traffic. Sometimes when it’s super hot I buy a bunch of Gatorade and hand it to the people working in the heat. You have the chance to make the world a better place. If you’d just DO it.
3. Walk the walk or– and pardon my French– shut the fuck up. I don’t want to see people complaining about how things are if they aren’t acting to make it better. If you aren’t going to the mat for people, if you aren’t fighting the good fight, if you aren’t lifting up the people you see who need your help, you are truly worthless and I have no respect for you.
Let’s make 2018 the year we take it back. We accidentally let someone else have it for a while, and they are doing a poor job of things.
Oh, and if you voted for Trump and you believe in him, more power to you. I’m not sure you can explain to me why that’s a good decision, but I’m not closed-minded. I’m glad to listen. You just have a difficult path to changing my mind. I wasn’t happy with the Clinton platform either, though, so don’t think I’m speaking strictly partisan here. I care about people. If the President did, too, he’d have my support.