OPINION: 'Let us join together in the spirit of our Founders, in humility before God, and in memory of our fallen, to heal our democracy. Let us invoke, as Lincoln said, the “better angels of our nature” to ensure that…
My fellow Americans, I speak to you tonight about what I believe is the most important issue we face as a country. I speak to you about the death of democracy.
But our founders added a remarkable innovation: we would no longer subject ourselves to the whims of a monarch. It was King George’s government — one that refused to accommodate our desire for self-determination and freedom from taxation without representation — that finally triggered the American Revolution.
But in the 1800s, debate over slavery grew fierce, pitting neighbor against neighbor, tearing our nation in two, and inciting a brutal civil war in which hundreds of thousands lost their lives. As President Lincoln said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”We Americans love our freedom. We love it so much that we fought two world wars to defeat fascist autocracy, to protect millions of innocent victims, and to preserve democracy.
We can do this. I call on like-minded Republicans, Democrats, and independent voters to commit to a renewal of our democracy. I call on every politician over the next two election cycles to commit to the “Democracy Renewal Pledge,” which integrates these principles. I propose a non-partisan Democracy Restoration Fund to energize this effort and to support politicians who sign and fulfill the pledge. Corporate donations will not be accepted. This is the people’s campaign.
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