The heart of democracy
The heart of democracy is the notion that a government is accountable to those it governs.
There is, perhaps, no more damning charge to be levelled against the president of a democracy than that of conspiring to take away from its citizens the right to have their votes counted.
The heart of democracy is the notion that a government is accountable to those it governs. That their full and fair consent is necessary for the legitimate exercise of power.
When so-called leaders conspire to actively undermine or pervert that consent, they are attempting to kill democracy itself.
These are the stakes in the indictment, arraignment, and trial of the ex-president of the United States, even as he runs for that office again, with an open blueprint to take unprecedented and unconstitutional executive power under his sway.
If the people you consider voting into any office in our democracy do not recognize that, and speak out against it, they have not earned your vote.
Because they will not respect your vote if it is cast in a way they do not like. And they will not fight to protect your right to have your vote counted as you intended. They will not seek or respect your consent to be governed.
Ask the people who want your vote to take a stand on this. If we lose the power of our vote, we will lose everything else, too. No social, economic, environmental, or other legislative agendas will mean anything, compared to losing the right to vote, and have that vote counted.
While the judicial process works through its slow but steady steps, we must continue to do our activist work, protecting the human and civil rights we have fought for over decades.
This is the heart of democracy, and the stakes are as high as they get.
Thank you for your company on this journey.