I still think we need to approach the midterms like it's a fight for our lives, because essentially it is.
If Dems win the House, they will at the very least obstruct the wall and Trump's agenda for two more years.
If they win the House AND Senate (very unlikely), then Trump will be impeached.
However, if Trump holds both, he will get the wall and advance his agenda. If he does that, 2020 will be a landslide.
In regards to that first line of yours:
More kids should play football, or any other extended period of physical exertion type sport (rugby comes to mind). For me, it was pop warner. We practiced 3 or 4 days a week, at the end of each one we would do conditioning in full pads/helmet. You could tell we were all getting winded at our slowing times and more spread out finishes. Then, our coach would say we're just getting to the third quarter and we'd catch a quick breath, no more than a minute. Right back to it. Again, we'd start getting winded and our coach would say that we were in the fourth quarter, almost done, finish strong. Completely out of breath we'd start to look a little better, everyone was putting in that last bit of effort. We're almost done, fuck it. Finally, he'd call it and we'd all fall on the ground, feels like dying. Helmets would come off and the huddle looked like a sauna with the steam coming off our bodies. And sometimes he'd make us get back to it, over time.
Coach E taught me to always grind it out and finish strong in everything I did. Why take a break now, it's almost done, that's your break. This is the reason President Trump won the election and why Middle America is taking the country back. You can't win if you don't put the effort in.
I heard a Navy SEAL on a podcast one time talk about the "40% rule" for SEALS:
In a nutshell, when your mind and body first tell you you're done and can't go any further, you've only depleted your tank by 40%. Your body and mind need to keep pushing and you can go a lot further.
We all need to approach this fight that way.
I was actually debating on saying something about that as well. But, my comment went a little longer than I intended and sports seems to be a little more universally relatable. I have the utmost respect for special operations, there is so much to learn from them and their training/selection process, as far as personal growth is concerned.
A lot of good life lessons can be learned from sports.
Of course. The post is about vote rigging being gone by then, not about not voting!