We Fight Because We Have To

This election, we’re in for the fight for our lives

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential nominee and senator from California Kamala Harris during the vice presidential debate in Kingsbury Hall at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Photos: Justin Sullivan/Pool/AFP/Getty Images

ZORA fam,

Welp. We got the first (maybe only) coherent debate in this election cycle, and it was still a mess. Sen. Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence may have had their shit together, but I’m more convinced than ever that America is still a shitshow.

Early on in the debate, Kamala looked directly into the camera and asked the American people, “How calm are you?” Sis, I am anything but calm right now! I sat and listened to the vice president tell lies about the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus. I heard him imply that racial bias in our police force is a myth. I watched him brush off the president’s refusal to condemn White supremacy.

Screams internally and externally.

I know despite all of the lies he told on stage last night, Pence is right about one thing: Trump has mobilized a group of Americans who are going to try to reelect him. He’s not wrong, and that scares me more than anything. Because it’s not Pence or Trump we have to beat. To truly make America less shitty, we have to change the minds of the millions of people who think the way that Trump and Pence do. We have to take the power back and give it to the people who need it most.