Justice During the Election and Beyond

For better or worse, voters in the United States are now casting the first votes of the 2020 United States Elections. The official election day is November 3, but early voting and mail-in voting have already started in earnest. Anyone concerned about the outcome of this election now has less than a month to get out the vote in favor of their preferred outcome for the presidential election and the many down-ballot offices at stake.

I’m no expert. I have no degrees in political science, no access to special polling data, and no other impressive qualifications on paper. What I do have, though, is over twenty years of experience reading about, writing about, and occasionally participating in various left-of-center and anti-authoritarian political organizations and movements. Even if I didn’t have that knowledge and experience, though, I would still speak up about politics. If we want to live in a democracy, we should all be ready and willing to talk about politics, regardless of whether or not we hold any specific political qualifications.

This is my statement about the 2020 United States Elections and beyond. If you want to talk about it, you know where to find me.

Who should read this statement?

I have two broad audiences in mind for this statement: “liberals” and “leftists”…