I really want to be up front on this:

I do not enjoy politics.
I hate politics.

But being working class, being an immigrant, being gay, being brown in a country still waking up to how racism still exists in the police, juridical, and housing system forces it to be relevant.

I wish more than anything that I lived such an experience where I didn’t have to keep constantly updated on immigration law, find out about challenges to LGBT rights in the workplace, find out about political news.

That I could live a life recumbent and ignorant to it.

But that’s just not the cards for me, and that’s fine. I’m out here trying to make the most of it.

Often we see how the cards are dealt when a family member gets cancer, when you lose your job, when you live with a disability.

It all seems unfair, but you learn to deal with it.

But the thing is, we get to choose the societies and the communities we want for one another.

We get to choose if we’re inclusive to all people and if we support each another. The cards don’t determine any of that stuff.

And government has the opportunity to be for all people.

So that’s why I follow politics, despite hating it.

Because I know that better is possible.