“We no longer dwell in that daydream. We were shaken to realism by the harshness of what we have witnessed in the last few years – the vilification of President Obama, a drive to wreck his legacy and undo the progress we have made as a nation in the last hundred years, a disdain for the sick and the poor, militarization of the police, and the weaponizing of government not to serve as an advocate, but as an agent of oppression and compliance.”
