Chris Pratt believes that despite the results of the 2024 presidential election, Americans need to support each other.
The Guardians of the Galaxy star wrote an op-ed for his mother-in-law’s website, Maria Shriver’s The Sunday Paper, in which he said that the outcome of the election is not as important as being there for one another.
“Like so many of us, I’ve been doomscrolling my way through this election season,” Pratt began his piece. “And I see things from both sides. I understand that people’s lives and rights are on the line. I also see that there are millions of people who feel overlooked and invisible to our government and are desperate for something to change.”
He went on to write that people may know him as the superhero from Marvel, but he grew up in a small town in America with parents who fought to make ends meet as they were “poor.” Even though his life has changed since then, he’s still trying to see the election through “the eyes of Americans on both sides.”
“I’ve been thinking a lot about where we’ll be as a nation on November 6th, how we can attempt to move forward after so much division, and how some of the lessons that sports teach us may be just what all of us need as we chart a course forward,” he continued.
The Garfield star recalled playing sports as a child and how it helped him understand that “losing is part of the game.”
“I feel as though we live in a time now when so many people have yet to learn that lesson,” Pratt wrote. “Sometimes your team doesn’t win. The 2024 presidential election is three days away as I write this. The biggest game of all time approaches. Team Red versus Team Blue. A rematch for the ages. A showdown four years in the making.”
He added, “Of course, I realize the outcome of a sporting event isn’t the same as the consequences of an election where real lives and livelihoods are at stake.”
The Jurassic World star explained that he chose to write the op-ed now because a portion of the voting population is going to be “incredibly disappointed” on Nov. 6.
“It’s OK to take a moment to lick your wounds when you lose,” he said. “Heck, go ahead and cry in the mirror. But if we become too paralyzed by defeat or too pompous in victory, allegiance to our ‘team’ can blind us to the fact that we are fellow countrymen.”
Pratt’s piece comes on the heels of Avengers Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Don Cheadle, Danai Gurira and Paul Bettany reuniting to endorse Kamala Harris in the election against Donald Trump.
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