That we have the right to increase the power of our individual voices via mass protest has long been a blessing of US citizenship and a model for the rest of the world. The blood of people who have died to gain and preserve this right pools in histories and textbooks.
That we must exercise this right before the locus of our democracy is cause for deep and abiding shame.
The unthinkable has become reality. Our teachings have become our misgivings. Our heritage has become our hypocrisy.
American States, beware! Your sister State of Florida is no outsider, is no foreign country, is no runaway tyranny. It is a United State in America. It is your children’s playground. It is your parent’s home. It lavishes riches on your table. It votes, and its votes are not counted with due process or accuracy.
Your sister State of Florida goes before you in this fight. Your sister State of Florida laughed with you as Florida was made the butt of every political joke in 2000, 2004, and 2006. Your sister State of Florida is now a Receding Democracy despite the purported protections of our constitution. Your sister State of Florida has already fought in every court of law and public opinion with one request: Count My Vote!
Pay attention to that news clip that shows individuals gathering and speaking at the DNC. Mute the media and listen to your own voice respond to your fellow Americans begging for just one thing: Count My Vote!
Can you picture yourself there? Can you hear your voice? Can you feel your own representation, expectations and rights slipping away? Can you hear Abraham Lincoln’s voice saying, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
I know you can. And I know you join Florida as she begs, “Count My Vote!”
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