11/05/2018, 03:30pm
America, vote against Trump’s hate and return to the moral center
ByJesse Jackson
Now Americans get to decide. Our democracy is corrupted by big money, scarred by efforts to suppress the vote or to gerrymander districts, and stained by scurrilous campaigning, led in this instance by the president himself.
Yet, in the end, democracy empowers us to decide who will lead us, who we will reward with our support and who we will spurn.
In Tuesday’s election, no matter who wins or loses, some things have become crystal clear.
OPINION
We do not live, the Bible teaches, by bread alone. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, Jesus taught, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. The fundamental judgment weighs not how much money you have amassed, but what values you have professed and practiced.
In this campaign, unemployment is low and wages have begun to tick up. President Trump may be riding a recovery begun under Barack Obama, but he takes the credit.
Yet even Trump understands that low unemployment figures are not enough. The question still is one of values.
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