I'm feeling similarly hopeful! Dan Rather's post on hope yesterday really resonated with me:
"...the cumulative effects of hopelessness can become a feedback loop for more hopelessness. Elections, let us remind ourselves, are decided by actual votes, not by polls and media speculation. Maybe the polls, which have been wrong before, will be wrong again. But if voters are so despondent that they feel their activism is a lost cause, it will almost assuredly become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(...)
While despair is contagious, so too is hope. It can be strengthened by realizing that others are in the struggle alongside us. It can be built through community and concrete actions. It can be made to feel urgent and essential.
Over the long arc of history, those who have bet against hope have often been wrong. Reason enough to keep hope alive, for this election and beyond."
Oct 26, 2022·edited Oct 26, 2022Liked by Jessica Craven
I've spent 12 hours textbanking with the Harris County Dems yesterday and today, and in all my textbanking in the last two election cycles, I have never seen so many super enthusiastic replies coming back. Usually on a textbank - there are three yesses for every 20 STOPs. I'm getting 1-2 stops for every 40 yesses. And, I had a great conversation today which I posted on Twitter. https://twitter.com/truthjusticehph/status/1584995328427982848?s=20&t=v0YnPWJ5wJ19S9sNSEFnAg
I'm feeling similarly hopeful! Dan Rather's post on hope yesterday really resonated with me:
"...the cumulative effects of hopelessness can become a feedback loop for more hopelessness. Elections, let us remind ourselves, are decided by actual votes, not by polls and media speculation. Maybe the polls, which have been wrong before, will be wrong again. But if voters are so despondent that they feel their activism is a lost cause, it will almost assuredly become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(...)
While despair is contagious, so too is hope. It can be strengthened by realizing that others are in the struggle alongside us. It can be built through community and concrete actions. It can be made to feel urgent and essential.
Over the long arc of history, those who have bet against hope have often been wrong. Reason enough to keep hope alive, for this election and beyond."
I've spent 12 hours textbanking with the Harris County Dems yesterday and today, and in all my textbanking in the last two election cycles, I have never seen so many super enthusiastic replies coming back. Usually on a textbank - there are three yesses for every 20 STOPs. I'm getting 1-2 stops for every 40 yesses. And, I had a great conversation today which I posted on Twitter. https://twitter.com/truthjusticehph/status/1584995328427982848?s=20&t=v0YnPWJ5wJ19S9sNSEFnAg