Michael Moore Instagram – Mike’s Midterm Tsunami Truth #24:
Vote Local, Win National
Change begins at home—meaning right there in your neighborhood, your ward, your borough, your school district. It’s there where the crazies are trying to ban Maya Angelou. Where the Right is trying to stop affordable housing from being built. Where the Chamber of Commerce is trying to eliminate environmental regulations. Their mission is to stifle debate, to put a halt to change, to lock things down so that the big money in town calls the shots. That’s where the Ted Cruzes of this world get their start on the road to perdition. And if we don’t stop them there, they will one day become the next Marjorie Taylor Greene.
So today I humbly beseech you to do a little research & find out who these local candidates are on your ballot. Look for a whip-smart local bartender (AOC) running for town council, or a middle school principal (Jamaal Bowman) on the ballot for County Commissioner or a local activist and mother (Cori Bush) seeking to become the township clerk. There are hundreds of these good people running across the country and it’ll feel good to find them, meet them and vote for them. The bigger changes that we seek nationwide begin right here in Our Town.
As the t-shirt above says, the mayor in Jaws—the political hack who at the behest of the local business community demanded that the sheriff open up the beaches for that all-important tourism money-maker known as the 4th of July weekend (even though a mad shark who’d already killed a skinny-dipper was still lurking offshore)—by the time “Jaws 2” rolled around, this bastard was still the mayor! Proving unequivocally that if you don’t pay attention to your local elections, if we don’t do our duty as citizens, even in the “smallest” races on the ballot, there will be no night swimming left for any one.
18 days to #Roevember! Spirits up!
I can’t make this victory happen alone. They only let me vote once! We’re all in this together.
Fear of the Trumpsters gives that power over to them.
Believe in our collective power!
What are you doing this weekend to get out the vote?! Now is the moment!
Read at MichaelMoore.com | Posted on 22/Oct/2022 21:35:10
