This image is going to appear here a lot in the runup to the midterms.
Are you of voting age? Go get registered. Are you registered already? CHECK it online – because states with Republican majorities have being seeing a big upsurge in other-party-registered voters being quietly deregistered so that they’re voiceless when they turn up at the polls. And keep checking. The people doing this crap are sneaky.
This is not a year for taking anything for granted: not a year for believing the polls: not a year for letting other people worry about it: not a year for allowing the seemingly unending flow of crap to wear you down. This year we all get to suit up and stop being what Tom Paine called “summer soldiers”, “sunshine patriots”, the ones who exercise the franchise when it’s easy, when nothing vital is on the line. Time to stand up and exercise the local mall-scale form of heroism, capes or not (I’m a no-cape type myself: E has a point).
Get registered and avoid the October rush. Help friends get registered too. It’s too easy to think “One more vote won’t make a difference”. And it’s not true.
We’ve gotta get this [leopard] out of here. Don’t worry about him, he’s all right. I’ll fix it. What are you gonna do? I’m gonna call the zoo. Oh, no, you can’t do that, David! That’s the meanest thing I ever heard. He’s a pet, he’d be miserable in a zoo.
Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Can everyone who sees this do me a huge favor and reblog this note for me. I am changing my userid. Hopefully this will work. IF IT WORKS it will be lightsofmyworld for tumblr, instagram and twitter. Wish me luck. Thank you so much for helping me out. I really appreciate it.
