In Demoralizing Times, Help Empower Bham and Yourself by Electing Patrick Cooper
These are, indeed, demoralizing times. The richest are getting richer. Everyone we know is getting laid off. Homelessness is skyrocketing; putting decent people out onto freezing streets. Nothing is happening with the wars, the poor, the education system, the food system, the political system. There’s absolutely no way progressives around the country can be feeling energized right now. Here in Birmingham, progressives have had even more shame to deal with as our local leaders steal from us and collude with big business and banks and do absolutely nothing to better our city.
What we need is a shot of encouragement. Even the smallest of achievements or victories could breathe new spirit into us and the movement for social change. We just need something to get us kick-started again like the months before the last Presidential election.
This small accomplishment for the progressives of Birmingham is to get Patrick Cooper elected as mayor.
The runoff election is only a few days away on Tuesday, January 19th. We need to be doing everything we can to get this man elected if we want to feel the empowerment of taking a step in the right direction. I encourage you to get in touch with your progressive friends and neighbors. Figure out what you can do to accomplish this goal. Print out a flyer to hang in your building or pass out in your neighborhood about why Cooper should be elected. Arrange a carpool to the polls. Text/Email all of your Birmingham friends a message about the January 19th election and tell them to forward it on. Even the slightest amount of effort could be rewarded handsomely if we manage to get such a forward-thinking, level-headed man into the Birmingham mayor’s office.
I know it’s hard to think about helping out an entire city when you are currently feeling so depressed and ineffective on a personal level. But the only way to fight this feeling is to give yourself some purpose and focus your energy on achieving even a small victory, if not for Birmingham, at least just for yourself. Electing Patrick Cooper as mayor is the way to regain some progressive momentum in a town that is dying both physically and spiritually. Will you answer this call, Birmingham? I hope you do!
Haha so much for that idea