what if the last time you voted for a candidate that got three million more votes but donald trump became the president?
I read this sort of sentiment a lot. I understand it fully. It is hard to motivate yourself to fight what feels like a losing battle. It is hard to work for something when it feels like all your work is wasted.
But I try to think of all the people who came before me who fought much longer and much harder and a lot harder for privileges and benefits that I was fortunate enough to be born with. I think about what would have happened if all those people just gave up.
Regardless of the losses and setbacks, and despite what it rips out of you every time you lose, you have to keep going. You are here now enjoying the fruits of progress your forebears accomplished. It is your turn to fight for it so your children can have it too.
So, whatever happened last time and whatever happens tomorrow, I keep trying.