Tomorrow is Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014!!!!!!!
I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that tomorrow is not the day when nanotechnology turns the Earth into grey goo. Nor the day when intelligent robots decide that they’ve had enough of our crap. Nor the day when climate disruption boils off all the oceans. Nor the day when a new virus, transmissible through glances and 100% fatal, does its dirty work. Nor the day when a giant asteroid shatters the Earth’s crust. Nor the day when Our Friends from Frolix-8 arrive (and boy, are they pissed off).
No, silly, all of that happens next Tuesday. Tomorrow, we have a mid-term election.
Different people react to that news in different ways. For instance, some people vote. No, really. Some people vote on Election Day.
Other people do other stuff. For instance, I was just on the phone with volunteers who will be making roughly 100,000 live phone calls to voters today.
Here’s another example: Mary S., of Princeton, NJ, did something at 11:52 pm last night that was extraordinarily kind. She gave our campaign $2000. Mary will not be getting a bailout, a tax break, a no-bid contract, an offshore drilling license or an earmark in return. But she will be getting my personal thanks, plus the sense that she pushed us closer to victory.
What about you? I’m not going to tell you that if you don’t contribute, Michelle Obama will be very disappointed in you. I’m not going to tell you that we’re just $16,528 short of our goal. I’m not going to tell you that everything that you contribute will be quintuple-matched. I’m not going to tell you that if you don’t contribute, we will lose. I’m not even going to tell you that the deadline is midnight tonight, even though the deadline actually is midnight tonight.
No, I don’t want to make you Xanax-dependent. I don’t want that on my conscience.
Instead, I will just tell you this. If you decide to join Mary S., and make a last-minute contribution, you do put our campaign closer to victory. Not just our campaign to re-elect me; that’s only an infinitesimal part of this. You put our campaign for justice, equality and peace one step closer to victory. You put our campaign to shelter the homeless, to feed the hungry, and to heal the sick one step closer to victory. You put our campaign to make America a paradise for ordinary people – including you, and your loved ones – one step closer to victory.
Tomorrow, I may win or I may lose. In the grand scheme of things, that means nothing. I’m just the fork-lift operator. But with your help, the permanent campaign to make the world a better place, to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number, that campaign will succeed.
Courage,
Rep. Alan Grayson