| Dear fellow Wisconsin Democrats,
This week, our nation has been reeling from last weekend’s back to back mass murders—and from the revelations that followed about the white supremacist motive behind the shooting in El Paso, and the role of President Trump’s and Fox News’s rhetoric in fueling it. And then, adding injury to injury, we’ve seen the administration’s mass immigration raids leave children crying in parking lots, parentless, after their mothers and fathers were taken while they were in school.
Millions of Americans have been left shaken—and even feeling unsafe. As Democrats, and as human beings, building a community in which everyone feels safe and welcomed is a fundamental value.
So what can we do? We can organize.
First, we can press our legislators—in Madison and in DC—to take action to prevent gun violence. More on that below. And second, we can work to create an electoral price for peddling hatred. Demagogues will continue to fuel this ugliness until they know it hurts them at the ballot box. It’s our job to make sure that it does. And we’ll do that not only by confronting hate, but also by exposing the purpose it serves for the special interests that fund the GOP: by dividing people, it gives those special interests cover to pick the pockets of people of all races and ethnicities.
It’s often in the darkest times that the light is most visible. Stories of heroes emerged from the wreckage, like veteran Glendon Oakley, Jr, who rescued terrified children in El Paso. He did what he could do. We honor him by doing what we can do as well.
Ben |
