Why I Vote Professor Daniel Kryder
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As opening graphic appears on screen:
On the left-hand side of the graphic a portrait of Daniel Thomas Kryder is seen with a close-up image of red, white and blue "VOTE" button is in the background. One the right-hand side of the image in large white with a blue stoke lettering reads "WHY I VOTE" laid over a slate colored background.
The graphic then cuts to video of Daniel Thomas Kryder seated. A lower third graphic with their name and title transition on briefly -
"Daniel Thomas Kryder, Louis Stulberg Chair in Law and Politics"
He addresses the camera:
"I vote in normal times because politics helps to distribute power and advantage and disadvantage, and now in crisis times, it becomes a matter of survival.
Now, it's always important for us to accept our responsibility to participate in politics because government does help to shape our fate our family's fate our community's fate, but it's not always easy to sign up for this in principle or in or in practice.
Our electoral system is not fully fair or democratic and our political economy over time has been deeply unjust.
For four centuries, elites, mostly men of European descent, have with their wealth and guns and legal and extra legal authority controlled and killed people unlike them: women, people of African descent, people of all colors, sexual and gender non-conformists of all kinds.
And we have to address the legacies of that violence and at the same time we have to deal
with agents now who are undermining the principles and institutions of American democracy.
Fortunately our Constitution allows for change and we have to go all in with the system we have.
Now, in part because of the pandemic and in part because some people in power want to make it harder to vote it will be more difficult and complex to vote this season.
Please make a plan now.
Please help your family and friends make a plan now.
It will be close."
The video then transitions out to show a white background where blue text reading 'Brandeis University' fades into the screen. A few frames later the text 'go.brandeis.edu/votedeis' also fades into the screen after a few seconds the screen fades to black.