Democracy’s People

In the new TV series “Damnation” set in Depression-era Iowa, a country preacher (who is in reality a revolutionary activist) faces a set of enemies bent on destroying his movement before it can begin.

In an early episode he exhorts his audience of rural farmers to not think of themselves as isolated individuals but as members of a group, “God’s people”, that can be stronger together than all of the forces arrayed against them.

Similarly, if we think of ourselves as “Democracy’s people” and together stand up for our fundamental rights under such vicious attack today, we can prevail against the millionaires and billionaires who are trying to subvert our nation, turn back progress and destroy the gains that “we the people” have made over the last century.