‘It’s not necessarily about me as a person, but it’s about literally anybody else as an idea’
  • ConstableJelly@midwest.social
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    9 months ago

    For too long have Americans been a victim of its political parties putting party loyalty over governance. Together let’s send the message to Washington and say, ‘You will represent or be replaced.’

    “I’m suspicious of any plan to fix unfairness that starts wtih ‘step one, dismantle the entire system and replace it with a better one,’ especially if you can’t do anything else until step one is done. Of all the ways that people kid themselves into doing nothing, that one is the most self-serving.” –Walkaway (by Cory Doctorow)

    I think I’ll be saying this a lot in the near future, but please don’t throw away your vote. As revolutions go, “not voting” is the 0 value on a scale of impotent to effective. If you care about change, do it at the local level. There are candidates in your city and county with radical ideas and plans for your communities. You can make a massive impact all on your own in those elections. You can change things. You have real power there.

    And that power grows when it joins with other communities across the country. That’s when your voice is loud enough to catch the ear of establishment power.

    It’s idealistic I know, but no less so than trying to catch the ear of power through abstainment. “Do nothing” does not stoke the fires of discontent to organize collective power. Please do something, and start with voting. Please.

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    9 months ago

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    Dustin Ebey, 35, said he changed his name so that he could express his dissatisfaction with the current presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

    “There really should be some outlet for people like me who are just so fed up with this constant power grab between the two parties that just has no benefit to the common person,” he added.

    Mr Ebey, who is a US army veteran and a seventh-grade math teacher in the suburbs of Dallas, said his name change was approved by a judge, and he has now obtained an official driver’s license with his new name.

    The 35-year-old has accepted that this is unlikely, adding that he is “not delusional,” so he is focusing his efforts on campaigning to get people to write in his name on their ballot paper.

    In a statement posted on his website, Mr Ebey wrote: “Literally Anybody Else isn’t a person, it’s a rally cry.

    A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in January found that about two-thirds of Americans were “tired of seeing the same candidates in presidential elections and want someone new.”

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