The Donkeys Drive Back To D.C.

 

Donkey & Elephant in primary colors

Observe a surprise curve at the 2020 electoral race.  We have watched not only the Democrats take back the seat, but the Dems have also made history in this election.  A woman has taken the vice presidential seat in U.S. and Kamala Harris is the new Vice President of America.  Running alongside former Vice President Joe Biden at the 2020 Presidential Race, Kamala has achieved what no other women have before:  becoming the first female elected onto Vice Presidential seat.  Golly, the Democrats have once again triumphed!  Her political background has been carved in stone—first as District Attorney of San Francisco, where she fought against sex-trafficking as a tough proponent for our criminal justice system; then as senate like our now 46^th President Joe Biden and many others who have presided in the same role.

 

 

Taking up majority of the votes on the Northeast, West, and few Mid-West and Rocky Mountains, Democrats have once again won the presidential power.  And we, the people, the voters, shall draw forth excitement as the donkeys go back to D.C.  The voter turnout has our country with two distinct persons:  a senior and a black woman.  Not since George Bush have we had a President who was older than the rest.  And not since George Bush, do we have a former Vice President become President of U.S.  At the age of seventy-seven, Joe Biden is a senior compared to the rest.  But Kamala Harris’s background stands apart as ever:  She is an African American woman.  She is the first minority to rise up to a big political seat; moreover, she is the first woman to rise to the responsibility.  That doubles up on the minority who has risen above any given setbacks.

 

 

It had been more than a century and nearly three scores ago since former president Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg’s speech.  2020 Presidential election commemorates Lincoln’s Emancipation of Proclamation that freed Africans as we now watch before our eyes the first African American woman elected on as the Vice President of U.S.  I have revised Kamala Harris’s speech to the American crowd so it signals back to Lincoln’s original Gettysburg’s speech:      

"This is a day.  This is a day that will change our days to come.  This is a day in history.  I am honored to speak here in front of you as the first female vice president of U.S.  I commemorate this day with all of our citizens, which of course includes women and families of all colors and of all backgrounds. 

Mark this day as the day that not only signifies the role of our political candidates but the role of our American citizens as well in a free country.    

 

By a total of electoral votes that count up to 290 and popular vote of more than 77 million, we, the Democrats, have taken the presidential seat again, and American voters, you, have spoken. 

So how do we as a society measure democracy in a free country?  Two scores ago, Congressman John Lewis who served in the fifth congressional district had this answers for us:  he writes, “Democracy is not a state, it is an act.” 

What he instructs us before his passing by his message is this:  Democracy descends upon those whose values have disintegrated on the grapples of greasy hands.  Indeed America's democracy do not come forthright at the wrong hands.  It becomes as strong as our willingness to fight for it.  Since we have sought our independence, we have protected ours:  Democracy has taken a journey of struggle, of sacrifice but has also sprout forth joy.  So let us walk through this journey as a work in progress.  

I promise you this important objective:  building a bright future for our children and families across America.  After our democracy had been up for ballot at this election, with the souls of America at stake, the world watched, and you have ushered in a new day for America.  

Let me address our campaign staff, volunteers, and our extraordinary team —thank you for bringing in more people than ever before in polling numbers in our democratic voting system. 

More than 77 million popular votes have been counted for Biden’s presidential election, making up 50.8% of your votes.  Since our last democratic presidential win in 2012's Obama's re-election where his winning  margins add up to more than 62 million popular votes, the 2020 election today have a record voter turnouts, exceeding 2012's by more than 14 million as voters have surged to the polls by more than 22% since. That is a climb.  Your voices have been heard.

Thank you to our poll workers, election officials who have worked tirelessly to count American votes. 

Your turnouts at the voting polls preserve the integrity of our democracy and the democratic rights of our American people who make up our beautiful country; thus record numbers validate your voices that have spoken and subsequently have been heard at this election.  I have our last several months which trails behind us now but has filled us with grief, sorrow, pain, worries and struggles, but we also witnessed your courage, your resilience and the generosity of our spirit.  For four years, you marched and organized for equality and justice for our lives as well as our planet.  And since then, you voted.  Today you've delivered a clear message. 

We have heard your choice of hope and unity, decency, science, and yes, truth.  Your choice for Joe Biden as the next president of America ensures you by his steady hand, and as a person whose own experience of loss drives him a sense of purpose which helps us all reclaim our purpose.  And a man with a big heart loves with abandon —by his love for First Lady Jill, by his love for Hunter and Ashley, by his affection for his grandchildren and the entire Biden family.  While I know Joe as Vice President, I got to know him as a father who loves his family.  My dear friend, I would like to make a tribute to you today.  And my husband Doug, our children Cole and Ella, my sister Mya, and our whole family, I love you more than I can ever express. 

 

We are grateful to Joe and Jill's welcoming of our family into theirs on this incredible journey.  And I have my mother Charmala, the women who is responsible for where I am here today on this stage in front of you     you’ve always been in our hearts.  My mother came to America from India at the brink of her young adulthood at nineteen, and she believed so deeply that I would stand here before you today and America; moreover, she believed for me that a moment like this will happen.  And so I thank her for raising me as a strong woman to take part in political office; I think of her and generations of women —black women, Asian, White, Latina, Native American who have paved the way for the rest throughout our nation’s history for this moment tonight.  I have you join me in saluting women who have fought and sacrificed for our equality and liberty; also let us not forget the black women who have been the backbone of our democracy.  

Five scores ago, women have fought in securing their rights to vote by an act of the nineteenth amendment.  Two scores and a decade-and-a-half later, we passed the voting rights act and now in 2020 a new generation of women cast their ballots to continue their fight — fundamental rights in voting and being heard as an equal member of our society.  Tonight I reflect on their struggle, their determination, and their strength of their vision; see for us what can be unburdened ahead by what has past behind us.  And I stand on their shoulders.  A testament to Joe’s character who had the audacity in breaking a substantial barriers which pervades our country by his selecting a woman as his vice president.   Give your hand to Joe.  

While I may be the first woman to take the office, I will surely not be the last.  Because every little girl watching tonight sees a country of hopes and dreams that after years of good efforts are realized.  And to the children of our country regardless of gender, our country sends you a clear message:  Dream with ambition; lead with conviction.  See yourselves in a way others may not simply because they may not have dreamed it.  But know that we will raise you up every step of the way til you ascend to your top.  And to the American people, no matter who you voted for, I will strive to be a vice president like Joe was to president Obama.  Waking up every day, putting forth my hard work for you and your family, I am now getting ready to put in my hours.  The hard work and the good work that saves lives, beat the epidemic we are under, boost our economy so it works for working people, and rule out systemic racism in our justice system. 

We also have to combat climate crisis, unite the country, and heal the soul of our nation.   Certainly the road ahead won't be easy, but America will be ready.  As will Joe and I.  We have elected a president who represents the people who make up majority of this country.  A leader the world will respect and our children will look up to.  A commander-in-chief who respects our troops and keep the country safe.   So I will leave you with this.  Let us be assured that ours will be marked by a period where all Americans can not only realize their dreams, but raise their lives up until we've fulfilled.  Lest your cup of life be filled and so yours would be filled by her hands which give you the water.  Thereupon, fetch yours from a spring you’ve built hereafter."