"Let Love Rule" sang Lenny Kravitz in a highly memorable moment at the Convention. But love -- more than a feeling -- consists of action reflecting kindness and commitment to the well-being of others. Love involves sacrifice. Love mandates abandoning models that have little to offer humanity in 2016 and beyond. Love calls on us not only to showcase minorities but shape global forces such that they -- and all of us -- thrive in a world of justice and sustainability. Obama's symbolic presidency fell short of embodying that commitment, which provided the impetus behind Sanders' revelatory candidacy and recent social movements.
Will the Democratic Party put Americans first? An old boss of mine used to say, "Make it so." Philly demonstrated to me that, as of now, the Democrats lack the vision and will to surmount the major challenges of our times which, most simply, require choosing people over corporations. But as we all continue, imbued by the spirit that brought us together, we will take action in the name of our values and our power. We will make it -- a world serving the common good with unbounded potential -- so.
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