Texas Teacher Calls for Unity Against Billionaire Influence

The biggest divide in our country is not left versus right, it's top versus bottom.

Yeah. Billionaires want us looking left and right at each other so that we're not looking up at them. That's right.

The people at the top work so hard to keep us angry and divided because our unity is a threat to their wealth and their power. Yeah.

So their social media algorithms and their cable news networks tear us apart.

They divide us by party, by race, by gender, by religion, so that we don't notice that they're defunding our schools, gutting our healthcare, and cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.

Yeah. It is the oldest strategy in the world, divide and conquer, but we will not be conquered.

Yeah. We're underdogs in this fight. We're going up against those billionaire mega-donors and their puppet politicians.

We're going up against a rigged system, and we're going up against a lot of money.

But I'm a former middle school teacher, I don't scare easily.

Whoo. And Texans don't scare easily.

Whoo. My, my grandad was a Baptist preacher in South Texas.

He taught me that we follow a barefoot rabbi who gave two commandments, love God and love neighbor, because there is no love of God without love of neighbor.

Yeah. Every single person bears the image of the sacred.

Every single person is holy. Not just my neighbors who look like me, or pray like me, or vote like me.

Those billionaires are trying to keep us from seeing all that we have in common.

They're trying to keep us from realizing that there is far more that unites us than divides us.

Because once we do, we will come together across party, across race, across gender, across religion, to take power back for ourselves and our communities.

Yeah. Two thousand years ago, when the powerful few rigged the system, that barefoot rabbi walked into the seat of power and flipped over the tables of injustice.

To those who love this state, to those who love this country, to those who love our neighbors, it's time to start flipping tables.