'In close to four years, he has shown no interest in putting in the work.'
Former President Barack Obama joined Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris as one of the keynote speakers at day three of the Democratic National Convention. Jus like his wife Michelle's speech on night one, Obama implored Americans to take action and vote for his former vice president Joe Biden. “They actually care about every American,” he said of Biden and Harris, adding that they care deeply about this democracy in way Trump does not.
I’m in Philadelphia, where our Constitution was drafted and signed. It wasn’t a perfect document. It allowed for the inhumanity of slavery and failed to guarantee women—and even men who didn’t own property—the right to participate in the political process. But embedded in this document was a North Star that would guide future generations; a system of representative government—a democracy—through which we could better realize our highest ideals.
But he never did. For close to four years now, he’s shown no interest in putting in the work; no interest in finding common ground; no interest in using the awesome power of his office to help anyone but himself and his friends; no interest in treating the presidency as anything but one more reality show that he can use to get the attention he craves.
When he meets with military families who’ve lost their hero, he does it as a kindred spirit; the parent of an American soldier; somebody whose faith has endured the hardest loss there is. They’ll get this pandemic under control, like Joe did when he helped me manage H1N1 and prevent an Ebola outbreak from reaching our shores.
But more than anything, what I know about Joe and Kamala is that they actually care about every American. And they care deeply about this democracy. They believe that in a democracy, the right to vote is sacred, and we should be making it easier for people to cast their ballot, not harder. They believe that no one—including the president—is above the law, and that no public official —including the president—should use their office to enrich themselves or their supporters.
We can’t let that happen. Do not let them take away your power. Don’t let them take away your democracy. Make a plan right now for how you’re going to get involved and vote. Do it as early as you can and tell your family and friends how they can vote too. Do what Americans have done for over two centuries when faced with even tougher times than this—all those quiet heroes who found the courage to keep marching, keep pushing in the face of hardship and injustice.
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