If you want to hit a target, you have to aim above it.
Life is not a frictionless surface. Lift is negated by weight, thrust by drag. No matter how great your momentum or how precise your aim, there will always be some force pushing you off course. In this respect, politics is no different from physics.
If you aim directly at your target, without correcting for weight and drag, you’ll fall short. If you aim short of your target, you won’t even come close to it.
And going up against madmen like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, going up against ALEC and the Kochs and 31 Republican state governors, we’re not just routinely defying gravity—we’re flying directly into a storm.
Trump and Cruz, and governors like Bruce Rauner, John Kasich, Pat McCrory and Rick Scott, are engaged in a full-on attack on the premise that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. To counter a force, you have to meet it with an equal and opposite force. To overcome it, you have to meet it with opposite and greater force. This moment demands a presidential nominee who truly, wholeheartedly believes in fairness and kindness, in rights and dignity, in security and opportunity for all of us—and for all people everywhere. Who not only says it but shows it.
The evidence indicates that Bernie Sanders gets all this, and Hillary Clinton does not.
Vote for Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination tomorrow, March 15.