Barack Obama told a Detroit crowd on Saturday that Abdul El-Sayed was “fighting for change, real change, that will get money out of politics and put money in your pocket”, as he threw his weight behind the Democratic Senate candidate and the rest of the ticket on the first day of early voting in Michigan.
Obama said in front of thousands of onlookers at Cass technical high school in Detroit that El-Sayed would “finish the job we started with the Affordable Care Act and guarantee quality, affordable healthcare to every single American”.
There is no utopia, and using a gun certainly won’t go in that direction. A functioning democracy is the best chance we’ve got. Yeah, it’s gone off the rails now, but blowing up the train won’t help. And it’s better to have a conductor trying to steer the thing in a better direction than a worse one.