Why we need to vote for Kamala

Politicians often talk in soundbytes and in hyperbole. But every so often, the phrasing strikes a chord and means something in the grander scheme of things.

In 1962, JFK said “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

We choose to do these things “because they are hard.”

In 1989, Reagan referenced John Winthrop calling America a “shining city on a hill” as a beacon of true democracy

In 1861, Abraham Lincoln said: “Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”

With war looming, FDR also said “”I suppose that every realist knows that the democratic way of life is at this moment being directly assailed in every part of the world — assailed either by arms or by secret spreading of poisonous propaganda by those who seek to destroy unity and promote discord in nations that are still at peace.”

These were calls to arms, to join together in common American aspirations, to work together.

At this juncture in American politics, with an election looming a scant few days away, we have the opportunity to bring hope and opportunity and to end discord and divisiness in the body politic. In Kamala Harris, we have a presidential candidate who is focused on the American people! We have the opportunity to reject the policy of division and implement the policy of inclusion and community.

In Harris’ call for addressing housing shortages and medical costs as “big things” to address in our new era we hear echoes of JFK.

The Harris-Walz economic agenda is middle class out. In the Harris administration’s focus of rewarding work, not simply rewarding wealth, we hear the echoes Abraham Lincoln.

To end the divisiveness and foster inclusion as an American trait to be shown to the world, we hear the echoes of Ronald Reagan.

The Harris agenda is not merely a continuation of the good policies of the Biden administration, it is a call for the re-imagining of the government’s role in expanding opportunities for all whether it is housing, drug prices, tax burdens or business start-up opportunities. In this we hear the echoes of FDR.

Kamala Harris does NOT believe that economic growth must be exclusive to a fairer deal for American workers- both can be achieved. In fact, the wealth disparity we have experienced since 1981 has actually been an anchor on true economic growth and a Harris administration would remove that anchor for ALL to prosper!

What I want to see, and expect from the evidence presented, is a stronger economy for working people and a reversal of 40 years of growing income inequality.

I expect a Harris administration to bolster the security of health care coverage for all Americans.

I know a Harris administration will protect women’s (and men’s) reproductive freedom and prevent a return of women to second class status.

I know a Harris administration will work to pass and implement the John Lewis Voting Rights Act to roll back infringement on our rights to vote being enacted across the country.

I expect a Harris administration to work for remedies in our flawed criminal justice system.

I expect a Harris administration to return the USA to the leadership that our allies expect and to return us to the world stage as a beacon of democracy (flawed that it may be, but always striving for that “more perfect union”). I want the Harris administration to act with resolve at injustice in the world where we can.

Inclusion not division.

Opportunity not suppression.

Fairness not special treatment.

Justice, not injustice.

Equality, not legislated inequality.

So let us work to get a Harris-Walz administration and a Democratically-controlled Congress and enact that Opportunity Economy Kamala Harris speaks of.