David Marcus talked to regular folks in Chicago while inside the heavily fortified DNC, Kamala Harris was being crowned the party's presidential nominee.
One day, airports will figure out a civilized method for catching an Uber after your flight, but that day was not last Sunday at O’Hare as a maelstrom of confused travelers stared into an endless stream of gray Toyota Camrys. Having made facial contact with my driver and exchanged names, I settled in for a bumper to bumper drive to my hotel and we began chatting. 'Do you mind if I ask what your accent is?' I queried. 'I travel a lot but I can’t place it.
Without exception, everyone I spoke to who was not a delegate told me that, of course, Harris should do interviews and press conferences. But as those who were delegates were quick to point out, it is not a dealbreaker for them, Trump, after all, being Trump. On my Uber ride back to the airport on Wednesday, I was driven by another recent immigrant to our country, this time from Kuwait. 'Why you vote?' he bluntly asked me, referring to the convention.
In Kuwait, sometimes the prince gives us democracy, sometimes he takes it away,' he said. 'What’s the difference?' It was clear that I wasn’t going to convince him, and I realized that there is no empirical way to prove the superiority of democracy, the dignity that comes with casting a ballot to have a say, being part of the citizenry at whose pleasure our politicians serve. My first immigrant driver got it, my second didn’t.
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