better than doing nothing

(9 am. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

Like a lot of people, I’m insanely frustrated with our elected representatives’ actions. I’m constantly asking myself, am I doing enough, are we making any difference at all.

My local supermarket was about to go on strike. My cashier had a button on reading “I don’t want to go on strike but will if I have to”. I told her she and her coworkers deserved a decent wage and if they went on strike I wasn’t coming back to that store until the strike was over. I told her she had my complete support. I don’t know how many other customers offered support. I’m only one person but I figured offering my support was the least I could do on that day, in that line.

I’m constantly getting mailings from the DCCC and others from the Party Establishment looking for money. I’m answering each one, telling them why they have lost my support. They always provide a business reply envelope but ask you to save them postage by using your own stamp. I never provide my own stamp. I make them pay to open my empty envelope and find my two cents worth. It may only be punishing them a few cents at a time, but if a hundred people do it too, or maybe a thousand people, it starts to add up to real money.

I’ve done GOTV, been to protest and rallies, I donate to progressive candidates when I can. I vote the Working Family’s Party Line. I’ve supported ek’s serf strike and hardly ever give the MSM my eyeballs. I fwd posts from Docudharma and other blogs to friends and family all the time.

On occasion when I get so fed up and I’m screaming at the screen, I’ll even post a rant of my own. I’m probably not much of an activist compared to others.

According to some I may be wasting my time. I may not be doing enough to change a damn thing.

But it feels better than doing nothing.

(and it’s my own time I’m wasting so who cares what anyone else says)