Just a reminder that we are all on the same team and why.

[redstatebluegirl]

This morning I had to stop by the pharmacy to pick up a prescription to help me sleep, (no two days away from DU and the news did not help that problem). While I was there a young woman in her 20's with two young children, one in a stroller and one on her hip was waiting for a prescription. The pharmacist came back and told her that the medicine for her daughter would cost $120. She broke into tears. I walked up, whispered in her ear that I would take care of it and handed the pharmacist my card. She told me her name was Jenna and she had lost her job 2 weeks ago and did not have the money for the COBRA insurance. She apologized for "being a problem", I told her I would have come unglued if it were my child. I hugged her, she took her meds and left.

What really burned my ass was the guy behind me in line who told me I should not have "encouraged her to be a deadbeat". I totally lost it, I went after him, he actually backed up away from me and he was twice my size. He left the line and went to another part of the store. I am lucky I'm not in jail, I would have gone with pleasure to for the pleasure of bothering that big, stupid asshole. He was such a little snowflake .

This is why we are Democrats, this is why we are different than they are. We are compassionate, caring people who understand that we are all one or two paychecks away from being in Jenna's position. We have empathy, we understand poverty, we want to stop it. We don't want Jenna to ever have to worry about getting medicine for her sick child.

ANY Democrat is better than ANY Republican, but we have to win this time, losing is not an option. We have to vote, we have to drag our friends to vote, we have to make sure everyone is registered and have checked their registration to make sure they did not get caught in one of the GOP's many acts of voter suppression.

Please remember this young woman when you are giving money to candidates, working for the party or just posting on DU. Our small disagreements are nothing compared to what she is going through and all of the others like her.