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I vote, I protest, I talk to those I can talk to. Nothing changes. I am just a disabled person with limited resources. What else can be done? I don't have money or the ability to make much changes. Yet non-Americans seem to expect us to rise up against this. Hell my state isn't even the gerrymandering war. I vote for democrats in local elections that can help. We have trouble getting unions as most people I know live paycheck to paycheck and do not have enough savings to do a strike. The twenty year plan of the republicans that has eroded the education system has worked. People are either not smart enough to not vote against their own self interest, they feel disillusioned and don't vote, or vote as much as they can. I wish there was more people who voted in local elections but time off of work isn't something a lot can do. America has been running towards a cliff since Citizens United, which gave companies the ability to bribe our officials. I worry that this county will fall before I die. It feels hopeless some days. edit: So when I see people say just go vote it really feels like someone telling a clinical depressed person to just not be sad.
I know you're doing what you can. Just keep on lighting the fire under those around you who are differently abled than yourself. Especially those friends of yours who can go out and vote but didn't. They are the ones who will also act. Your health may not allow certain things, but you're doing more than many.