Politicians must recognize, that if they don't respect the interests of their most loyal supporters, come election time, they will lose, period. Sadly, they're often right. We must reevaluate who should run for office and in whose interest elected officials actually work. Elected officials should work for all our people, not just for a clique. The interests of those who claim to represent us must become more closely aligned with the interests of students, workers, small business owners, and other taxpayers and consumers.
Most elections are close.
This process must be linked to the production of goods and services, valued by grassroots people. For ourselves and for one another, let us have more love, respect, tolerance, patience and prayer, while we fight for cooperation among people who are different, national liberation and true democracy. Woman March programs and Day of Atonement observances democratic community patrols, watches and self-defense freeing of America s political prisoners and the return of political exiles implementation, within the United States, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Kwanzaa and the application of the 7 Principles environmental justice, protection and sustainablilty voter education, registration and mass mobilization Thirty years ago, most people in the South and parts of the Southwest, who were forced by mass movements and the Voting Rights Act to share political authority with all the rest of their fellow citizens, at first, felt put upon. But generally they, including some members of the Supreme Court, learned to get used to it and over time most learned to accept it. The same will be true of the sharing of cultural and economic authority regardless of race or gender in the 21 st Century.