Democrats have *flipped* 7 state legislative chambers and 333 seats, adding 6 more trifectas (gov+both chambers)
All I saw on my mainstream news app was “GOP holds Senate, GOP governors win in three states, Trump says the midterms were great” and nothing like this.
You probably know that the Democrats decisively won the House of Representatives.
Here’s more good news that you’re probably not hearing: Democrats took control from Republicans in New Hampshire,
Colorado,
Minnesota,
Maine, Nevada, New Mexico, Illinois, and New York, and now hold the governor’s seat and both chambers of the legislature in the last six of those states.
This is huge for fixing the huge gerrymandering issues at the state level that have enshrined minority rule by the GOP in all U.S. elections from the presidency on down.
You know, now that the ACA is safely guarded by a Democratic Congress, I want to take a moment to thank the people who saved it from the republicans who’d been frothing at the mouth for years to tear it apart.
You.
All the people who said ‘well I think the whole FUCK not’, and called and yelled and refused to shut up and be quiet about it. Who remembered that WE HAVE POWER TOO, and who used that power to look their representatives in the eye and say “buddy, you work for us, and so help us if you do this we will eat you.”
Remember that. We have power. Use that power. Don’t forget it.
Pro tip: if an evangelical stranger approaches you asking to pray for you, there’s inevitably something about you that they see and want to change. [Ex: I attend a very conservative, very religious uni and am clearly tomboyish/lesbiany, and thus am constantly attracting evangelical strangers] If you can’t shake them (usually very difficult), then turn the tactic upon them by asking if they mind you leading the prayer bc “I have a few things on my mind.”
Then talk about whatever it is that’s making them uncomfortable. I ask god to protect all the lgbt+ kids that are lost, isolated or homeless. I mention my non-Christian brothers, sisters, and siblings that have to fight for recognition and respect in a monoreligious nation. I pray for the protection of immigrants and refugees, reminding my evangelical friends that their savoir was once one of that number. You can pray for pregnant mothers to find the resources and abortive care that they need, if they need it, if you’re feeling particularly brave.
This achieves two things: 1) there is no response to this, esp if you wrap it up with “amen, thank you guys so much for doing that with me. I hope y’all have a blessed day” and leave them no room to continue the prayer. But more importantly 2) that group will NEVER bother you again and you will show them, using their own method against them, that their prayer isn’t an act of faith, but of power.
Just thought I’d share bc I know that I used to be accosted by evangelical strangers once a week on my uni campus and never had a good response or ‘out’. This is by far the most effective method of shutting that sort of behavior down real quick.
Jesus could be a passive-aggressive son of a G and this is right out of his playbook.
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