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When I was a teenager I was training to become a member of a search and rescue team. And our instructor in first aid drilled a thing into us, and since I still remember I guess he succeeded:

“What’s going to kill them first?”

The basic logic was that if they died none of the other stuff would matter. So you do stuff in that order: “What’s going to kill them first?”

And that’s how I feel about the American election and so many things. Focusing on this election isn’t communicating that certain other issues aren’t important. This is about making sure we’ll have the opportunity to have that debate/fight/whatever.

The goal isn’t only this election, the goal is (maybe even mainly) that there will be another election.

Because once the patient isn’t dying, suddenly all the other issues can be addressed.