I have always believed in a world where people once again ask the question that President Kennedy proposed forty years ago, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
We Democrats need to return to our core values. We must make a concerted effort to bring hope to those who so desperately need it.
Our party must fight for those who need hope, and we must help bring to justice those that harm our fellow brothers and sisters.
These past five years have been hard on America. From the savage brutality of 9/11, to the deserts of Iraq, from the prison of Abu Ghraib, to the city of Fallujah, from the deficit to outsourcing, to increasing poverty, to the destruction of a beloved city, to our government spying on law-abiding US citizens, our country is hurting. We Democrats must help restore our country's lost dignity and our stolen honor.
We need hope, not blind optimism, but rather the realization that we must all make sacrifices to help the country we love. When we lose hope, we lose everything, and right now, we are losing hope for a better tomorrow.
My generation is in danger of being the first in US history to have a lower quality of life than our parents. Will we Democrats fight for our country? Will we fight to give all of our fellow Americans hope?
Our values and ideals are under siege by those who would do anything to stay in power. We need clear moral leadership to lead us to the city on the hill. We need the crystal clarity that being in the right entails.
We need faith in something greater than just the dollar, or just an individual. We need to restore our faith in Democracy and the belief that we are great not because we are alone, but that our stregth is that of the many. The many who have fought and died so that I may write this letter, the many who still come to this country looking for a better life for their families, the many who have been silenced because of their fight for human dignity, and the many who go to work everyday to give their children a better life than they had. These are the people who have made our country great. These are the people who we must honor for their great sacrifices. These are the people we must fight to protect. That is our solemn duty as Democrats, as Americans, but most importantly as human beings.