I see a reason to fight

[vercetti2021]

Not for me. I couldn't care less about myself. Over the last 2 years I've experienced what happiness was when I finally beat my dysphoria. I achieved what I wanted ultimately. But I look at my cousins. One being 22 and the other 11. The youngest of course being a female. I look at her and I see the only reason I need to fight.

She is it. I want her to live in an America that isn't christofascist authoritarian hellscape. I want her to see days of happiness and freedoms for all. She is a kid and deserves to be so until she grows up on her own terms. Not forced by a hellish climate brought on by the right.

I look at them both. I see our future. And if worst comes to pass when we are at war. I'm fine with laying my life down for them. I've accepted that now and I know dying is better knowing i can keep them free than have them oppressed. I hope everyone can switch that mentality on. Because these kids deserve a place to live and grow up without fascists ruining the world and their lives. So I'm ready. More ready than I ever have been.

Live free or die.

[Native]

1. Amen.

[Scrivener7]

2. I'm glad. And I agree.

[Elessar Zappa]

3. Same here.

I’ll fight if necessary. I pray it doesn’t come to that and I don’t think it will. I still maintain faith in our people.

[W_HAMILTON]

4. Is the 22-year-old voting? And voting for Democrats?

I hope so, since that would do a lot more for the cause than the always popular but all-too-nebulous "fighting."

[vercetti2021]

5. Yes very very liberal he is

Hes an extremely intelligent young man. He sees all the problems coming and he votes.

[W_HAMILTON]

6. Thank goodness.

It seems like so many young people want to "fight," but when it comes to actually voting -- the one that has led us to this point and the one thing that will lead us out -- they want to trash Democrats because it gets them social media clout (from a lot of divisive Republican and Russian trolls, I'm sure).

[vercetti2021]

7. Yeah his mom didn't raise him to be a slacktivist

And he is definitely not. He works 2 jobs and goes to trade school for welding. He sees the problems coming and we constantly talk about it