November 3, 2018
In 72 hours we will face the most consequential election of our lives. It is no exaggeration to say that Democracy hangs in the balance. The choice is stark. On one side are those who want a fascist oligarchy that will cement white supremacy. On the other side is a multicultural coalition with a hopeful vision for America’s future, where we all can love and worship as we want, and no one’s horizons are limited by their race, gender, religion or sexuality.
One side is represented by hate filled individuals who murder people in synagogues and supermarkets; the other by Muslims who raise money to help Jewish families bury those senselessly slaughtered. One side defaces and sets fires to synagogues; the other holds peaceful vigils to protest anti-Semitism.
One side appeals to its base by proudly trafficking in racism, featuring an ad so vile that CNN refused to run it. The other fields candidates who forcefully reject the politics of division and propose actual solutions to Americans’ problems.
One side is exemplified by the venomous rhetoric of the tangerine Grand Wizard in the Oval Office, who orders a military response to a humanitarian crisis. The other side is represented by the nation’s first Black President, crisscrossing the south from Miami to Morehouse, repeatedly exhorting us to vote for a “vision where love and hope overcome hate,” until he was hoarse.
This is The Last Weekend. What we do between today and the moment when the last polls close in Hawaii will determine our future. Leave it ALL on field, because, as President Obama said, nothing less than “the character of our country is on the ballot.”
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Amen. My stomach is in knots. I hope we see an upraising like we never have before.