Fmr. Rep. Beto O’Rourke:
No, it’s going to take all of us. There’s no cavalry, there’s no savior who is going to ride to our rescue. It has to be the people of this country.
And my advice for my fellow Democrats is, we certainly have told the American people what we’re against. We don’t like Donald Trump, this Big Beautiful Bill that transferred nearly a trillion dollars of our wealth to the wealthiest 1 percent in this country. Folks get that, but what is our vision for the future?
How about we imagine an America where your take-home pay is enough to live on so you don’t work a second or a third job? You’re guaranteed the ability to see a doctor when you’re sick, before you’re sick, so that you don’t get sick. You have access to fresh and healthy food and clean drinking water. If you work hard, you can afford a home, because too many people are working too hard right now and cannot buy a home.
If we don’t help people get what they need from a government of the many, then soon enough they’re going to be open to getting what they need from a government of the few or a government even of only one. And then one more thing. We have to, especially when it comes to our standing in the world, really stand up for what we care about, like human rights.
So, in Gaza, we can’t be saying that we’re for a two-state solution or offer mealymouthed platitudes. We have to stop being complicit in the bombing and the starving and the slaughtering of innocent children in Gaza and use the awesome power of this country to convene the nations of that region and of the planet, if that’s what it takes, to establish an independent sovereign Palestinian state and do what we can to guarantee the safety of every Palestinian, every Israeli, every person in that region.
People want to see us boldly stand up for the things that we really care about and the things that really matter.
