Psalm 30 in pertinent part says: "Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning"
I am joyful this morning. Democrats are getting elected when Democrats pay attention; when they do not take anything for granted. Wins are happening all over the nation by Democrats unseating Republicans in special elections. I am joyous this morning because of a great win in the Wisconsin state Supreme Court by a Democratic woman that turned the balance of power finally toward Democrats and against the Republican Governor Walker and his Koch Brother allies who care only for the the 2% richest.
I am joyful this morning. Democrats are getting elected when Democrats pay attention; when they do not take anything for granted. Wins are happening all over the nation by Democrats unseating Republicans in special elections. I am joyous this morning because of a great win in the Wisconsin state Supreme Court by a Democratic woman that turned the balance of power finally toward Democrats and against the Republican Governor Walker and his Koch Brother allies who care only for the the 2% richest.
I am, however, ever vigilant. There needs to
be more Democratic victories culminating in turning the House and even the
Senate Democratic blue on November 9, 2018. Our eyes ultimately should
turn to the Democratic Party selecting a strong, electable, and incorruptible candidate for president but Democrats cannot rest.
Trump's win of the presidency has done one and only one good thing. It has woken up Democrats to the threat of what happens when Republicans win. Republicans abandon the very people for whom government should work. They abandon the middle class, the poor, the sick, the elderly and want to take away decades of New Deal legislation that began Social Security, Great Society Medicare and Medicaid policies that have kept us alive; The modern Democratic Party has helped those who had no freedom to be free at last. The Democratic Party has bestowed rights on those who were abandoned. It has helped those who are sick, who are disabled, and who are poor. The Republican Party wants to take power away from those who have bent the nation's arc toward justice. The Republican Party of this era wants to take hard fought for justice honed over decades away from people who need justice most. The Democratic Party has ensured voting rights, overthrew Jim Crow segregation and tried to give health care to those who could not afford it. The Democratic Party tried to ensure justice to those who heretofore had none.
Pursuing justice is still a work in progress and why Democrats must win to overthrow the most corrupt, the most mendacious, the most cruel Republican Party that has morphed unrecognizable from its beginning. It is not the Party of Lincoln. It is the Party of George Wallace, it is the Party of Bull Connor, it is the Party of Jeff Sessions, the Ku Klux Klan, it is the Party that has made room for racists of all stripes and it is the Party now giving a place to be for the most egregious of the extremist right -- the American Nazis. This is the racist, mendacious and brutal Party of Donald J. Trump. This is not for what the nation has stood but now we are going to take it back from the most corrupt president in U.S. history, who promised to drain the swamp but became it, who promised to keep DACA but then destroyed it and blamed Democrats who created it.
No matter the flaws of the Democratic Party it is better than anyone or anything with the word Republican after it. Republicans must be electorally crushed across the nation in local, state, and national politics, in special elections and in all elections to undo the corrupt Constitution shattering horror of Trump.
The Democratic Party advocates for justice for all people irrespective of skin color, country of origin, sex or sexual preference. We are ALL -- each one of us in this nation -- American and deserve equality under the law, a hand up to the refugee from nations of violence through an immigration bill that works and the pursuit of happiness for which the Declaration of Independence advocates.
Trump's win of the presidency has done one and only one good thing. It has woken up Democrats to the threat of what happens when Republicans win. Republicans abandon the very people for whom government should work. They abandon the middle class, the poor, the sick, the elderly and want to take away decades of New Deal legislation that began Social Security, Great Society Medicare and Medicaid policies that have kept us alive; The modern Democratic Party has helped those who had no freedom to be free at last. The Democratic Party has bestowed rights on those who were abandoned. It has helped those who are sick, who are disabled, and who are poor. The Republican Party wants to take power away from those who have bent the nation's arc toward justice. The Republican Party of this era wants to take hard fought for justice honed over decades away from people who need justice most. The Democratic Party has ensured voting rights, overthrew Jim Crow segregation and tried to give health care to those who could not afford it. The Democratic Party tried to ensure justice to those who heretofore had none.
Pursuing justice is still a work in progress and why Democrats must win to overthrow the most corrupt, the most mendacious, the most cruel Republican Party that has morphed unrecognizable from its beginning. It is not the Party of Lincoln. It is the Party of George Wallace, it is the Party of Bull Connor, it is the Party of Jeff Sessions, the Ku Klux Klan, it is the Party that has made room for racists of all stripes and it is the Party now giving a place to be for the most egregious of the extremist right -- the American Nazis. This is the racist, mendacious and brutal Party of Donald J. Trump. This is not for what the nation has stood but now we are going to take it back from the most corrupt president in U.S. history, who promised to drain the swamp but became it, who promised to keep DACA but then destroyed it and blamed Democrats who created it.
No matter the flaws of the Democratic Party it is better than anyone or anything with the word Republican after it. Republicans must be electorally crushed across the nation in local, state, and national politics, in special elections and in all elections to undo the corrupt Constitution shattering horror of Trump.
The Democratic Party advocates for justice for all people irrespective of skin color, country of origin, sex or sexual preference. We are ALL -- each one of us in this nation -- American and deserve equality under the law, a hand up to the refugee from nations of violence through an immigration bill that works and the pursuit of happiness for which the Declaration of Independence advocates.
We go on even through assassinations of MLK great ones who were poised
to deliver justice permanently to those who did not have it. We go on
despite the hardship, despite the poverty, despite the pain, despite all
the advances in social justice that all Republicans would take away to
make a nation not great again but all white again. Democrats are
about equality through diversity and we go on to get what was once ours again.
NEVER
stop, NEVER give in, and NEVER give up. Change comes from the bottom
up and those Democrats we the people elect will ensure that our joy in
the morning lasts through the night.
