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Sarah's avatar

THIS… “But you know the damndest thing about the future? It hasn't happened yet. It will come in due time, much too fast, but never so soon that we don't have a chance to build it.”

Thank you for this!! We are the architects of our future. We have agency. We must not despair. As Ben Wikler (WisDems chairperson) recently said at an event in Wisconsin, “You aren’t able to wring your hands when you’re rolling up your sleeves!”

Let’s work for the world we want to see!!!

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Gretchen's avatar

I am tired of getting stuck in a doom scroll loop looking for soothsayers who will tell me the future. Nobody knows the future! And even if the bad thing happens, how it pans out and who will push back is all unknown! Being anxious about "inevitabilities" is just making me exhausted, and I wish it wasn't this omnipresent thing in the back of my mind. The only thing I know for sure is that I am most likely going to keep living for the next few decades, as will a lot of other people, and the game doesn't just end when bad people make big gains, or when the "good" people do either! Like, we have to still live our lives and do things about it! Anyway, I am trying to stay off of Twitter, et. all, where the prognosticators seem to thrive because I find this hopelessness very immobilizing. But it seems to be absolutely everywhere I look right now.

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