This is more than a victory for Biden and Harris. This is a victory for democracy. When all the votes are counted, some 80 million Americans will have voted to end the Trumpism politics of lies, greed and the lust for power.
An unprecedented coalition of American people have said clearly, "We cannot go backwards. We are going forward together."
People did not turnout in record numbers in the midst of a pandemic to vote for a return to normal.
We have elected Biden and Harris to use the power of government to lift up those who have been battered by COVID-19, battered by poverty, and battered by years of Republican extremism.
We can celebrate now for a moment, but we must go to work and make sure that people can soon feel that their votes will result in policy change.
As I said to Vice President Biden when he was running, our hope is in the mourning.
If his administration can answer the cries of mourning people with real, transformative policy that addresses systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation and the denial of healthcare, it will indeed be a new day in America.
If the new administration and Congress will challenge the war economy and the false moral narrative of religious nationalism and nativism, then we the people can believe again that this democracy will continue to be made a more perfect union.
If this win is to be a victory for all of us, we must have a major political reconstruction.
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"In 1860, Southern Democrats, flush with the disproportionate power granted to them by the Electoral College, had torn the Union in half and instigated four years of bloody internecine warfare.
"Mindful of this history, in December, 1868, Senator Aaron Cragin, of New Hampshire, and Representative William Kelley, of Pennsylvania, introduced drafts of what eventually became the Fifteenth Amendment.
“Black voters were meant to be a bulwark against a similar regime arising to again threaten national unity—which is to say that people who had scarcely ever experienced democracy were now among its chief safeguards.
Love them. Pray for them. But don't stay stuck in the past with them. It's time for America to stop asking Trump to be magnanimous. He will have to confess his sins and the sins of his party to do that and that’s on him, McConnell, etc.
It’s time for America to shake the dust off our feet and move forward together.
Now, just in case you want to know one last time why Republicans are so tied to Trump and his tactics, it's because these are the tactics they have used for the last 52 years.
Read this to understand what’s going on and let’s move forward together:
Already so-called "centrist" Democrats are blaming liberals, claiming they are the reason for losing some House seats and not taking the Senate. This analysis is too shallow. The language of left vs. right vs. centrist is too puny.
Why are they saying Medicare For All is "socialism"? It's not true. 62% of Americans want to raise the minimum wage, and the majority want universal health care.
Democrats don’t need to become "centrist." They need to put lifting the poor & expanding the electorate at the center. Even with this election, millions still did not vote. Democrats need to do across the South what was done in Georgia to expand the electorate.
Some commentators keep saying we are evenly divided as a nation, but if the Southern states are all proven voter suppression states and that suppression is hindering votes and elections, do we know if we truly are evenly divided?
(Remember @StaceyAbrams? And even with @ReverendWarnock - the second primary is a form of suppression. We used to have it in NC, and we voted it out.)
And if we are, so what? The Constitution says that if you get 270 electoral votes, then you are the president. Trump won the electoral college in 2016 by only 80,000 votes (and lost the popular vote by millions), but he & Republicans took that as a "mandate" & governed as such.
Some say Trump is going to do this or that if he loses. But he will be one man when he loses; we are the people. We don’t have to listen to him lie. The people have spoken.
Remember, God is not dead. Trump does not have the final word. Every despot in history has become a mere footnote when exposed.
A white man & a Black woman will win w/ more votes than any ticket ever in the middle of a pandemic, historic voter suppression, after choosing to run on raising min wage to $15/hr & a union, expanding healthcare & addressing systemic racism.