Dis…

Disrespect. Disappointment. Dissatisfaction. Disillusionment. Distrust. Discouragement. Disenfranchisement. So many disses. So many reasons for many of us to be moved to action. And I’ll bet you can think of a slew of moments in the last two years that generated at least one of these feelings. I know I can. Too many to count in fact. And every single one of those outrageous moments was accompanied by an angry image of the man who has hijacked our democracy and the minions who serve him instead of serving our nation and people.

And yet this weekend I had an experience that has pushed all of those moments aside with such a sudden epiphany I was nearly blinded when the light finally went on. I was phone banking for the TDP this weekend and I spoke with a gentleman in El Paso who agreed with our value statements but when I asked if we could count on him to vote for democrats he responded, no way… he’d take a pass on that. I was stunned. But he then he went on to share that in ten years no one had ever asked what his concerns were or what his people needed. Even when he asked Beto’s team to canvass his neighborhood, they didn’t. And so he felt that we cared about his vote but not about him.