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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere will be people recognized as National Heroes when this election is over
We can already name a few:
Stacey Abrams heads the list
Beto O'Rourke is there, too
Add Emmett Sullivan to the list
But wait, there will be more.
Poll workers
Voters putting up with shit but remaining strong, stalwart and DETERMINED.
People who help others to the polls.
Secretaries of State
Governors
Election Chiefs
FBI agents
In my view, there should be special acknowledgement for Women of Color. They are my heroes, to be sure.
Add to the list if you have other names.
cilla4progress
(24,782 posts)I want to see a statue to these folks - the American voter, poll workers, voter supporters!!
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)If Texas flips for Joe. It'll be from Beto's never ending work here.
coti
(4,612 posts)flor-de-jasmim
(2,125 posts)coti
(4,612 posts)I'm gaining appreciation for just how important they have been and are to the Democratic Party and national progress.
Stinky The Clown
(67,827 posts)arlyellowdog
(866 posts)All young voter motivators, the Parkland students, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Eminem. TikTok
SWBTATTReg
(22,176 posts)isn't afraid of any challenges, e.g., his going on Faux News and taking them on. He's also been on national TV constantly too, and I've been so impressed, so taken aback by his totally down to earth answers to questions posed to him on just about anything. A hero if you ask me.
Arkansas Granny
(31,535 posts)interviews that I've seen on Fox News. Cool, calm and full of facts.
AmericanCanuck
(1,102 posts)We expect us Democrats to do our part - some did it splendidly like Beto, Stacy Abrams and Mayor Pete.
TLP is not one of us but they worked tirelessly to bring the orange baby clown down for the love of their country. None of them will get a cabinet post or an ambassadorship - they did it without expectations and of their own accord.
The republican crossover vote is expected to be as much as 18% and they should get credit for that.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)spooky3
(34,488 posts)calguy
(5,336 posts)who put their personal ambitions aside after Joe won SC, withdrew from the race and backed Joe Biden. Had they not done that it might have been a very ugly primary season with the eventual winner badly wounded and damaged.
And very likely not had a candidate as strong as Joe is right now.
Salviati
(6,009 posts)That were tireless in standing up for Joe and Kamala, presenting a united front of support behind them.
hatrack
(59,593 posts)Mrs. Hatrack here, hijacking Hatrack's account for a minute.
I have long said that if we get through this Trump era intact as a country, when the history of this time is written, the very first hero mentioned in the saga should be the anonymous National Park Service employee who tweeted out the side-by-side photos of the comparative crowds at Obama's and Trump's inaugurations on Day 1 of Trump's administration.
At a time when millions of us were in despair, that anonymous employee said "Game On" and signaled that we were not going to take this, or "alternative facts," lying down. He or she must be included among the list of many heroes and true patriots of this time.
DBoon
(22,401 posts)Who was there in the beginning and an inspiration through decades
onecaliberal
(32,916 posts)ananda
(28,885 posts)Mayor and Elections Chief who did an outstanding job
protecting the vote in Harris County!