My Friends and I Are Responsible for Joe Biden’s Victory
I personally know several people who were responsible for winning the election, and one of them might have been me.
It’s a bold statement, but hear me out.
Back in June, a friend of mine told me to calm down. “There’s nothing you can do,” he said. “You should meditate and accept that it’s out of your hands.” I was crumbling under the endless pressure of the news, and he was trying to soothe me.
“You’re wrong,” I said, frustrated that he wasn’t doing anything to actually help. “You know you could… ”
He cut me off. “Come on, you know one vote doesn’t matter.” I groaned. What an idiot, I thought. To be fair to my friend, even in states like Wisconsin or Georgia, it was never down to an actual single vote. But there is so much more to democracy than voting. There is protesting. Driving others to the polls. Writing postcards. Texting. Organizing events. Donating money. Calling voters. Campaigning, tweeting, speaking, and writing.
Many of my friends did all these things and more.
To anyone who did anything this time: This is our win.
