Friends, some of you are disappointed because your favorite presidential candidate dropped out. You’re angry that for 231 years, we’ve had only male presidents, and the 2020 election will tack on at least another four years. You’re aggravated by people posting divisive statements: “America’s just not ready for a woman president,” “Biden is not progressive enough,” or “Bernie’s too socialist to defeat Trump.”
Democrats are in danger of destructing from the inside out when they need more than ever to band together to defeat the real enemies: lack of affordable healthcare, low wages, gerrymandering, voter suppression, students who depend on school lunches going without food, low-wage workers suffering even more due to lost business at their workplace. The list goes on, and now we can add COVID-19 to the list, which as Van Jones on CNN stated before the debate tonight, comes for everyone regardless of who you voted for, where you’re from, or what race you are. The last people we should be attacking is each other.
It’s time to prove our own naysayers AND the other side wrong by coming together. If we fail to coalesce, our voices will be silenced by the dissension from within our ranks and by the other side. The American people don’t deserve that. We owe it to ourselves and everyone else to remind this country what real leadership looks like. True leadership is responsible, it’s humble, it’s accountable, it doesn’t point fingers or assign blame – it works for solutions.
We all have to show up to vote in the November general. We all have to vote BLUE NO MATTER WHO.
Until then, we have to register voters. We have to volunteer for and donate to campaigns. We have to locks arms and band together and bring in as many others as we possibly can to our fight.
This is the right moment to unify: we are at a turning point with the potential to achieve all of the goals we have been fighting for.
This is the first time since the 2008 when President Obama first ran for office that Democrats beat Republicans in turnout: 2,076,046 Texans voted in the Democratic Party this year, 67,661 more than those who voted in the Republican primary, according to unofficial totals from the Texas Secretary of State.
In North Texas, Democrats saw a record-breaking number of 67,092 voters in Denton County and 84,350 voters in Collin County. In the 2018 primaries in Collin County, Republican primary voters outnumbered Democrat primary voters 2 to 1. In Dallas County, Democrats outvoted Republicans 3 to 1, almost beating 2008 totals!
Together, we can create a new system in which the people, not the powerful, dictate the agenda. We can flip the Senate, more House seats, and the White House, putting in place the checks and balances we so desperately need considering who’s sitting on the Supreme Court.
Everything depends on us unifying. Work together, and remember November is just one step we have to take to create the America we want and need – even if that means voting for the person who wasn’t our first choice.
Vote blue down all the way down ballot and encourage everyone you know to do the same. Vote blue no matter who.