Opinion: Before Americans go running off to Europe to fight for democracy over there, FOX Soul's Sean McMillan says we should probably shore up its firm foundations in this country first. That starts with securing the right to vote.
A woman stands beside two graves at Lychakiv cemetery after a joint funeral for two soldiers who died in the east of the country during recent fighting, on March 8, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. It is said that. Thus begins the African proverb which today takes on new meaning in light of what is going on in Eastern Europe.
The government of the Ukraine is asking people from other countries to come and help them fight, to take up arms in the struggle to preserve democracy. And I do believe that democracy is an idea worth fighting for because, though battered and bruised, the constitutional ideals bequeathed to us in Philadelphia and Selma are the only viable hope for humanity to one day achieve the kind of egalitarian certainty our children deserve.
Still, though, I find the act of soliciting foreign mercenaries to be a curious undertaking, because here’s what I know about democracy. A cloud of noise whispered in the yearning ears of those who will not go sheepishly into the night. It is the pilgrim’s prayer. The song of the slave. The desperate dance of the honeybee at the door of the hive, thinking only of the sweetness. For this is how it survives.
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