
We all have to vote blue. I mean, how many times can I say it over the last four years? It feels like a million. So here is my last push for 2020… here are 100 reasons to vote blue.
- For our kids
- Because Trump was impeached
- For the future that our children will inherit and the planet we want them to not only survive in, but thrive in.
- Because science is real
- Because climate change is real and the biggest existential threat to us
- For climate action and reversing climate change (Biden/Harris have a historic climate action plan)
- For the indigenous people whose land and way of life are threatened around the world due to climate change
- For a clean energy future
- For the public lands Trump has sold off and we can’t get back
- For the public lands that we need to fight protect and make sure don’t get sold off
- Because we can’t get back land once it’s been sold off
- Because facts are truth
- For a kinder world
- For a more inclusive world
- For a more equal and equitable country
- Because LGBTQIA+ people deserve human rights
- Because women deserve human rights
- Because trans people matter
- Because black people matter
- Because Indigenous people matter
- Because all humans deserve human rights
- Because we should want others to never suffer as we have
- Because in order to do that, we need to fix a lot of problems in our country
- For a society that believes in lifting each other up and the power of uniting through our differences
- For the right to taxpayer-funded healthcare and access to healthcare for all
- For much better mental healthcare
- So that mental healthcare isn’t something only the rich can afford
- For those suffering from drug and opioid addiction
- For the protection and help for homeless people
- Because black lives matter
- For George Floyd, Brianna Taylor, Elijah McClain, Wallace Jr. and so many more…
- Because cops should have more training
- Because cops shouldn’t be militarized
- For common-sense gun control
- For the Parkland students
- For all the victims of mass shootings who need us to stand behind them
- For the victims of domestic violence who need better protections
- For the Violence against Women Act that sits expired on Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s desk
- For the other 400 bills, passed by the house, sitting in purgatory on Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s desk
- For Ruth Bader Ginsberg
- For Merrick Garland, whose Supreme Court seat was stolen from him over 200 days out in the election
- For the three Supreme Court seats that were unjustly filled by Trump
- Because we shouldn’t have let an accused rapist onto the Supreme Court
- For bodily autonomy
- Because a woman’s right to choose should be legal and a choice between her and her doctor
- Because the USA ranks 55th on the maternal mortality rate for women (behind Russia) by the World Health Organization
- Because the maternal mortality rate is much higher for black mothers
- For the quarter of a million people who have died because of the mishandling of COVID-19
- For the millions who have experienced unemployment due to the mishandling of COVID-19
- To those who have become homeless due to the mishandling of COVID-19
- Because white supremacy and nazis are emboldened by 45 and his cronies
- Because I shouldn’t have had to type the sentence above
- Because Trump has yet to denounce white supremacy on multiple occasions
- For an end to facism in America
- Because voting Red is a vote to embolden and strengthen white supremacy
- Because voting Red is a vote in support of the supreme court seat theft and 400 bills on Mitch McConnell’s desk…
- Because voting Red is a vote in support of the crumbling of Democracy
- For all the small businesses who paid more in taxes than Jeff Bezos
- For all the people who paid more in taxes than Donald Trump
- Because billionaires and multi-millionaires who profited off of the pandemic
- Because we need to tax the ultra-wealthy and Biden’s tax plan taxes anyone making over $400,000 a year, but protects those underneath it.
- Because making sure the people of your country are healthy and protected isn’t socialism…
- For asylum seekers
- Because it doesn’t matter who started it, but putting people in concentration camps should be ended fully.
- Because people have died in concentration camps
- Because hundreds of people are missing from these concentration camps
- Because there have been thousands of reported assaults in these concentrations camps
- Because we are a country of immigrants and it’s time we understood that
- For access to a fair and free education
- For free access to pre-school and college
- For separation of church and state to be upheld in all the tiers of our government
- Because all people should be allowed to worship what they want in the USA
- To make sure our representatives work for us and not corporations
- To get corporate PAC money out of politics
- Because corporations shouldn’t be considered people
- Because corporations should be held accountable for their damages
- Because there should be affordable housing options
- Because developers shouldn’t be allowed to scrape cities and build luxury condos that sit empty while there are no affordable housing options for those in need
- Because big box stores are running mom and pop shops out of towns all across America and there needs to be accountability
- Because conversion camps need to be outlawed
- Because Title IX needs to be upheld
- For equal pay for equal work
- For access to medication
- Because Big Pharma needs to be held accountable
- Because access to birth control should be free and easily accessible
- Because menstrual products should be free and easily accessible
- For all the people struggling under predatory student loans
- For the ultra-rich who take advantage of broken systems
- So we can fix those broken systems
- Because we need to repair the damage done to Democracy by Mitch McConnell, Trump, and all the Republicans who have caused a stalemate in the Senate
- Because we shouldn’t have to chase down our senators and beg them not to sell off our rights (hem hem, Susan Collins)
- Because all these people work for us so they should fight for all of us, not just the rich
- For the USPS and protecting our postal service
- Because voting should be easily accessible
- To end Gerrymandering
- Because we love our country and know we can make it a better and more equitable place
- Because progress for the sake of humanity and equality will make our country stronger and safer
- Because we should strive to be better and create a better and more equal world where all can prosper and thrive…
- Because this list could go on and on…
- Because a better world starts with you voting blue.


VOTE BLUE!
