If this is your first election Congratulations on exercising your right to vote! If you are unable to vote, know you can make a difference in your community in other ways.
Election time can be scary. There is a lot of information and statistics thrown at us constantly, a lot of bickering and fact checking and re-fact checking and it can be exhausting to be a media consumer around these times. It can feel dehumanizing to watch the demographic or culture you belong to being critiqued and debated while the world watches. And yes, these people may control legislature, but us lay people create the culture and environment by how we speak, behave, and advocate in our day to day lives and for those around us. This advice from Madison Franz, a Florida Gulf Coast University Student in 2020, gave some great advice for affirmations during and post-election. They stay relevant today in 2024.