Digital Democratic Convention kicks off with a message of unity and empathy

No one had ever seen anything like that before the Democratic Convention. There was schmoozing, which everyone knows, the point is an agreement. Democratic conventions are not normally Maggie Rogers “Back in my body” nap wearing a flowing white dress on a rocky beach in Maine game threads beach or video conference with doctors and nurses. Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria hosted the evening as Lesley Stahl, pivoting seamlessly between the speeches, meetings and discussion groups, as if it were a particularly patriotic episode of 60 minutes. But if the digital dimension added a fantasy feel the issues were extremely old-fashioned. The first night of the convention was what former Vice President Biden spoke from the beginning of his political career about: unity, empathy and how it can exist either without the other. The ideology – and in fact, the political differences of any kind – has taken a backseat character. Personal stories were to the fore. The first night of the convention pre-COVID 19 workers on the front line, Amtrak conductor switches to Biden on his long and had the Delaware, and friendship with the families of Eric Garner and George Floyd. A young woman named Kristin Urquiza, who had lost his father wearing the crown Trump delivered a glowing lines of the night. “His only previous Donald Trump family disease,” he said. “And for this he paid with his life.” A sense that things in Washington. Subscribe to daily direct current, short newsletter. All agreements have to build coalitions, but the DNC has an even larger goal: to unite the country, not just the party. National unity, of what Biden calls the “struggle for the soul of the nation”, the campaign has central candidate. The convention program also drives home the message that personal empathy Biden, his ability to build relationships with everyone from Republicans for Amtrak conductor blacks to the families of men killed by police, is the reason why only be able to promise to deliver. To this end, the first night featured a choir of four Republicans, including former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, former California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, the former member of the New York Susan Molinari Congress, and the ‘former Ohio Governor John Kasich that his party condemned the President and pledged to support the democratic candidate. Kasich was at a crossroads literal and said, “America is at a crossroads” ‘I am a Republican for life’, said Kasich. “But the attack keeps the second place in my responsibility for my country.” Kasich has continued to do, claiming that Biden is a decent man, political differences are respected and not take the far left of a place for his fellow conservatives. “I’m sure there are Republicans and independents who could not imagine that crosses to support a Democrat. They fear Joe can abruptly turn left, and leave them behind,” he said. “I do not think Because I know that the measure of a man. And ‘reasonable, loyal, respectful. And you know nobody Joe is expressed as a result.” Soon, Bernie Sanders, the US and the main bearer of the left rival for the nomination Biden, sitting in front of a solid wall of wood and made a step in a different corner of the voters. He urged his followers to vote for progressive Biden, because, as he put it, “The future of our democracy is at stake. The future of our economy is at stake. The future of our planet is at stake.” “My friends, “he said. “The price of failure is easy to imagine too big” Kasich was pitching to the right and Sanders left was pitching, but the evening ended with Michelle Obama on common message articulated: that Donald Trump is an incompetent president, and that ‘ Bidens personal empathy makes him uniquely able to heal a nation that has been destroyed by trauma. Sitting in a living room, wear necklace “vote,” the former first lady delivered one of the most intimate and compelling political speeches in modern memory. “Right now, to see the children in this country, what happens when we need empathy from each stop,” he said. “Look who asked me if we have all the time about who we are and what really lies value to them.” The refusal to wear a mask, police on black people asked their lives survived, white racists emboldening and children from their families all amounts to what the First Lady as “a nation that underachieving is not easy on policy issues, but on the subject of character separation., “he said Biden’s experience of personal loss, Obama, has given him an understanding of ordinary people who fight. “When I was a kid, Joe’s father lost his job. When he was a young senator, Joe lost his wife and his little daughter. And when he was vice president, he lost his beloved son,” he said. “His life is the back of growing evidence, and it is the same energy and channel the passion to bring all of us to heal us and to help us forward.” Then Obama took the unusual step of people not only to press a to apply for the put to the vote, but vote personally prepare, even during a pandemic Biden to assure victory. He encouraged voters on the comfortable and masks to pack shoes a lunch (or breakfast) and “all night waiting in line when we need to.” As he said, was the stakes could not be higher. “If you take one thing from my speech tonight, is this: if you can do things not be worse, trust me, they can, and they, if we do not change in this election,” he said. “If we do not hope to end this chaos, we vote for Joe Biden as our life depends on it.”
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