By voting! Peaceful assembly and voting is the pinnacle of citizen mobilization here in the End of History™! If the desired or needed change doesn't happen, it wasn't actually needed. If change really is needed and didn't happen, it's your fault for voting incorrectly or not hard enough!
Here are some inspiration quotes to keep you motivated.
- "By Any Votes Necessary", Malcom X (as in "X on your ballot choice")
- "Power flows from the Ballot Box", Mao "The Dong" TseDong
- "The Third World isn't poor, it's undemocratic!", Michael Parenti
- "Sometimes, history needs a vote.", Vladimir Lenin
- "They have sown the votes, and they shall reap the results", Arthur "Voter" Harris
- "Once you learn to vote, you will forever be free", Frederick Douglass
Seriously though, sometimes the sheer enormity of the propaganda and gaslighting against this entire nation slams into me and I feel like a Lovecraftian protagonist going insane from learning the truth about reality. Every news article and leftist opinion piece becomes like the Madman's Knowledge pickup from Bloodborne. This is why I try to limit doomscrolling
To some degree, this but unironically.
There's the "if voting changed anything they'd make it illegal" quote, but they are making it illegal for black people to vote.
Everything you don't achieve by voting is another thing you have to achieve by other means. Voting is a pretty low effort activity, so I just see it as lightening the load.
