Keep the faith
Step 6 of “How You Can Protect Democracy” on the protect democracy website is an action we can practice every day: keeping the faith. I’ll quote their language in full here:
“Authoritarianism thrives on despair, hopelessness, anger, and resentment. Democracy depends on hope and possibility. The most important tools we have are our optimism, willingness to trust and collaborate, openness to possibility, and strength in diversity. Democracy is, at its core, nothing less and nothing more than the conviction that, together, we can build a better world than any one of us could design on our own.
To believe in democracy is to keep faith that it can endure dark times and immense challenges, and to know that — in the long run — the democracy of tomorrow will win out, and we can get back on the path to creating a truly pluralist, multi-racial, representative democracy.”
So, take a step today to cultivate and nurture hope, possibility, optimism, trust, and collaboration. If you do, it’s certain to accomplish much more than simply protecting democracy - though it will do that as well!
It’s time.
110 days, 13 hours, 38 minutes until Election Day.
https://days.to/until/election-day-in-us