"Knock Down the House" on Netflix

Ah, where to begin? We all feel, we all know and we all accept that we have little power over the political scene right now. We want change but we cannot make it happen. We are all pissed off but what to do? Plus, the complacency of the American people is rampant.... "can't fix it, just have to wait for it to change, nothin I can do."

Watch this documentary. Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) begin her run for office in New York with just a handful of unpaid staff and paper flyers she hands out. Watch her take on one of the most powerful Democrats in the U.S. in a fair fight with no political backing or funding.  Watch her stand up and argue and fight and watch her win.

And watch three other women with equally strong agendas fight their hard, heartfelt fights and lose.

But it's the change that might be coming, if the American voters can see their way to support women, men, anyone who is not backed by lobbyists, by corporate sponsors, by millionaires. We need women, men, people of different races and mixed genders and those who are disenfranchised.  This documentary gives a tiny bit of hope to those of us who still cry out for change and for less homogenized candidates. 

The women who ran for office fought against issues that are never going to disappear: jobs, health care, race, drugs and treatment, wages, discrimination.  These women have risked their jobs and their lives to change things and these women, like every single person in our world, deserve to be heard.

This documentary is less than two hours long. Please watch it. And then please take some action, even if it's to convince yourself to register to vote and then vote. Or convince just one other person to do the same.  We need voters and we need voices. Complacency means nothing. Action means everything. 

In the last election, the number of people who did not vote was staggering. In 2020, if every person who voted in the last election could convince one non-voter to actually vote, the outcome of the next election could be substantially different. Keep that in mind.  And keep in mind people like AOC, who can make a difference in the political spectrum if she (they) just have voting supporters.

Peace out. 

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