Thank you for being on the front lines and helping people get their voices heard.
I guess I am anxious. I don't want McConnell to continue to block laws just to prove he can. If the Supreme Court overturns Obamacare next year (I don't think they will, but you never know), then Biden and the Democrats will scramble to enact laws to save it, and then McConnell will stop it in the Senate. And then millions will lose coverage.
Right now is a classic example. McConnell is blocking relief for Covid-19. He claims the bill is too expensive and it has "poison pills" in it (as well as the age-old complaint that it is bailing "blue states" out.) I checked the legislation, and the vast majority of the bill is related to Covid-19 treatment and prevention. He keeps saying no while millions are infected and thousands are hospitalized and dying. Many will also suffer from the economic collapse that this country is struggling from.
As I live in a deep red state, I am resigned to the fact that many of my neighbors will never see the light, and I give up on them. For decades, it was "liberals are evil baby killers and socialists" even as their own Republican led governments fail them. And with Trump's recent denialism about Covid-19, two of them that I know personally have died this week from the virus.
I am so used to this attitude that I am afraid to hope that maybe, just maybe a traditionally red state will tell McConnell that they have had enough.
I have no doubt that you and the rest of the heroes in Georgia can drum up enough support for the Democratic candidates, but I am scared because the winter weather, the threat of Covid-19, and probably efforts from Kemp and his cronies to make voting even more difficult this time around will cut into your numbers.
Now, we don't know how Republicans are doing right now. Will they feel discouraged that Trump lost that they don't have the energy to go back to the polls, or will they continue to believe the same misinformation about Democrats and believe they must save the Senate for the "evil liberals?" Will Trump try to help Republicans, or will he ignore it? How much voter enthusiasm came about Trump, and will it carry to January 5, 2021? UGH! There are so many unknown variables, and I really, really wish that the voter energy for Republicans goes down, as it will need to in order to offset the factors I mentioned that may keep Democrats from voting in January.
@allyn We can keep Stacey Abrams and Keisha Lance Bottoms and all who are fighting to bring in needed changes in our prayers as they fight the good fight, make "good trouble" and more. We can pray for the Light and Protection and Support for Warnock and Ossoff to surround and lift them up. Remember them and all of us Georgians wanting to create a better world for ourselves, our children and grandchildren and future generations. We have been trying to drag Georgia in to the Present for years now. Jimmy Carter, one of my heroes, has fought for women and POC for years and has often been ridiculed. I think many do not know or acknowledge just how great a man he is and how much he and Roslyn have given to our nation. You have only to watch Warnock and Ossoff talk to see that they KNOW where we need to heal and go to bring ourselves in to a better future for all Georgians. I pray we make it so. Stacey? Has done an incredible job getting folks registered and getting the kinks and fraud out of our voting system here...because make no mistake... Kemp DID this "cause Georgia secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp improperly purged more than 340,000 voters from the state's registration rolls"
She has been instrumental in getting folks the help they needed to make their voice, their vote...count. Pray that all of us.. get to vote..to get our voices heard.
May this vision be so accurate that Trump and his minions leave the state alone so we can have a chance to recover from the super-spreading mad genius plot to dramatically decrease the state population.
Georgia has been finally called for a Biden.
@jeanne-mayell Been writing postcards for the last 4 yrs and the GA NAACP campaign was the most gratifying. I felt a connection with every voter on a level I didn’t understand then but I do now.
Love it! I also loved this headline: "For Stacey Abrams, Revenge is a Dish Best Served Blue"
To me Stacey deserves a heck of a lot of credit for helping voters in Georgia turn the state blue. We need her help now more than ever to help Osoff and Warnock get elected in the senate run offs in January! My hope is after that happens that eventually Joe Biden and Kamala Harris find Stacey a place in their administration. GO STACEY!
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/07/us/stacey-abrams-georgia-voter-suppression-trnd/index.html
Georgia is overwhelmed, in a good way, w help from around the US and need time to plan accordingly. What they need is $$$ bc mailing lists cost $$$. Here is some info from our Indivisible Outer Cape:
“Indivisibles in Georgia work with many of the state's best organizations such as Stacey Abrams' Fair Fight, Black Votes Matter, and the New Georgia Project. These Indivisible groups are coordinating with our national organization as well as with our Indivisibles in MA.
First and foremost: They are telling us that we should not travel to Georgia to help. The threat of complicating voting by spreading Covid-19 is a serious worry for them.
They are telling us to wait until the local and state groups have the training and infrastructure in place for us to help them with phone/text banks and postcards. Once they do, their resources will be offered to the many groups in GA first and then offered to groups out of state.”
Update: looks like info/response is coming out fast and flexible. Martha’s Vineyard Indivisible was able to get a small batch of mailing addresses so anyone who wants to participate will have to keep checking. p.s. Stacey Abrams was on the training call for text- and phone-banking this week (I wasn’t on the call), her standout quote of the call was “This isn’t magic, this is math!”
@earthangel I'd like to copy and paste your first two paragraphs on the website of a liberal democratic discussion group. I know quite a few will donate money including myself. With your permission and without your name. FYI There are members who are from all over the country with a heavy concentration in Alabama where the group was started. But, Maryland, Indiana, California, and other states are represented.