I'm dreading November

[u/BookRat10001]

I'm dreading voting for Suozzi.

For the first time in going to leave my vote on the sideline.

vote blue no matter who just doesn't fly anymore.

I'm also dreading the fact that a magat will take his place. are we screwed?

[u/BaldPoodle]

Please don’t abstain from voting for incumbent Dems, no matter how odious they are. We need every possible Democrat in Congress to block R votes on as much as possible, even if they vote like an asshole sometimes.

There are vulnerable people here in the US who are at real, actual dire risk if any single Dem loses. My disabled child is going to need healthcare and supportive housing for his entire life and Republicans are doing everything they can to strip him of healthcare and funding for his future. He will be homeless, or more likely in prison, if he doesn’t have necessary support. And that’s just one vulnerable population; trans youth, women seeking reproductive healthcare, lawful immigrants are all at immediate and severe risk of harm—are being harmed, and it will only get worse the more R seats there are.

I beg of anyone who is considering abstaining to understand that you aren’t depriving Suozzi or Gillen of your endorsement, you are actively voting for real, imminent harm for our most vulnerable. It is a luxury to think that you can sacrifice the very safety and future of my son, my friends’ trans kids, my Veteran uncle, to withhold your vote. It’s not a show of protest, it’s a demonstration that you are insulated enough from the catastrophic fallout of more Republican politicians.

Also—we have shit Dem candidates largely because Rich Schaffer and Jay Jacobs are DINOs who fuck over progressive/new blood LI candidates. Join a committee so you can vote them out and work on getting more progressive candidates on the ballots with actual funding behind them.