Dear Sharra, Traveling the country throughout this year, I saw an America I hadn't seen before. My audiences are far more intellectually sober and reflective than people normally associate with a political crowd. There is something new that is trying to emerge. |
One of the slogans we've used for the campaign is a new beginning, and that's what I sense that people want now. There is a saying in Alcoholics Anonymous that a person can grow "sick and tired of being sick and tired," and clearly so can a country. America's character has always been forward looking, optimistic, and ready to take on new things. Yet today we're like a wilted plant, and people are wondering where the much needed water to replenish us is going to come from.
Our concern is not ill-placed, of course. We've lived through 9/11, Covid, and January 6th. We're seeing division, corruption, and the normalization of the worst kinds of hate. We've fought wars that we know were wrong-minded and tragic. Our economy serves the few at the expense of the many. There's a sense that something has gotten away from us and we're not sure how to get it back.
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And that's what makes this such a fertile moment. I wouldn't be getting one, even two standing ovations at my talks if I wasn't speaking into a national yearning for something new. Today's "rebirth of freedom" emerges from a rededication to something that has been there all along. Audiences appreciate my putting our circumstances into historical context, my references to abolition and women's suffrage and the establishment of organized labor and the civil rights movements as examples of other times when citizens had to rise to meet very challenging moments. I remind us that other generations struggled, but they prevailed. In many ways some of our most pressing challenges now are ones that are simply new iterations of problems we have faced, and faced down, before.
And we can do it again. We can cut the cord with an aberrational chapter of American history and begin a new one. From my analysis of how we got here, to the myriad and comprehensive policy prescriptions my campaign has put forth, we are generating the seeds of a new political movement in the United States. And that's why I'm keeping on keeping on.
Over the next couple of days I'll be in New Orleans; then the next week I'll be in New York and Connecticut, then Oregon and elsewhere as we continue to add to the almost 400,000 votes we have garnered so far. Those votes are political leverage with which we can continue to make an argument for policies that will put this country back on track. The more we keep pushing, the more power we have with which to help create a more enlightened, just and healthier America.
Thank you so much for supporting this. |
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