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What We Can Do: 85 Days, 85 Things

by WaterGirl|  August 8, 20202:00 pm| 74 Comments

This post is in: Political Action, What We Can Do / Playing to Win, Anxiety Antidote

There are 85 days before the November elections.  Just 85 days.  We can’t afford to wish that time away in the hopes that we will dump Trump, so at least part of this nightmare will end.  Or spiral with fear or anxiety at the thought that he might actually win, no matter how hard we work or how incomprehensible a win for Trump would be after all we have been through.

We have 85 days of hard work ahead, and so many things have changed since February that the title Playing to Win doesn’t seem to fit anymore.

Here, in this thread?  I’d like to focus on what we can do.

There is so much that is outside our control that it can get to be overwhelming.  Not to mention anxiety-producing. Especially when Trump shits out democracy-destroying actions multiple times a day.  That’s his real operation warp speed.

I’ll start with a list of 15 things that we can do.  Just so you know, I’m gonna pick some obvious ones and count on all of you to supply 70 more by the end of today.  But first, a bit of levity.

Here’s What We Can Do.

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