(Reader Supported News) — “Labor rights are not left or right issues, women’s rights are not left or right issues, education is not a left or right issue, helping people when they’re unemployed is not left or right. Those issues are the moral center of who we are, and it’s high time that we recover the moral dialogue in this nation.”
~ Rev. William Barber II
Picture a candidate on the presidential debate stage in 2016 who, in a single hour, could completely demolish Republican arguments with morality. This candidate would frame ending poverty, providing healthcare, and bolstering education as moral responsibilities, citing the Constitution and the Bible throughout. As a Southerner, this candidate would pick up Southern voters. As a clergy member, this candidate would pick up religious voters. And as someone who doesn’t come from Washington, this candidate would pick up apathetic voters. When this candidate is through speaking, Republican politicians who normally fly the moral and constitutional flags would suddenly have no moral or constitutional credibility.
So who is this candidate? Rev. William Barber II, the charismatic president of the North Carolina NAACP and fiery voice of the Moral Monday movement.
