We cannot sit back and refuse to vote, as though our votes do not matter. That is what the enemy most wants. We can vote as never before, and make our votes matter as never before. And in doing so, we can teach ourselves never to give in again. Then, of course, we have work to do. Six years ago, I wrote
Grokking Republicans: Learned Helplessness vs. Personal Control
GOTV (Get Out The Vote) is the greatest nightmare for Republicans today. Democrats of all sorts, cowed in a multitude of different ways over the last 50 years, will learn to believe in themselves, and to vote regularly, in both Presidential and off years, up and down the ticket, and even run for office. When we vote, we win. We have the numbers to flip all of the seemingly Red states of the former Confederacy, even Alabama, in the next few cycles.
Our book for today, which I will use to explain much of this, is Learned Helplessness: A Theory for the Age of Personal Control, by Peterson, Maier, and Seligman. It explains how helplessness arises in many different situations, how it operates, how it can be created and enforced, and also what can be done about it. Like using GOTV to get people out of the helplessness of "My vote doesn't matter."
The biggest Republican lie of all is of course that Demoncrats [sic] are no better than they are, and to their fearful and deluded way of thinking a whole lot worse.
This, this, THIS is our message.
There are those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting.
But don't you believe it! We are not helpless before this iniquity.