Personal kindness is giving your phone number to people.

Systemic kindness is making health coverage a human right.

The former should motivate the latter, not stand in for it.

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Personal kindness is looking people in the eye and comforting them.

Systemic kindness is taxing extreme wealth so their kids have daycare.
Personal kindness is reassuring people that when they get knocked down, they can get back up.

Systemic kindness is supporting a safety net that helps them do it.
What I wish for @JoeBiden is that, recognizing the gravity of this moment, he is able, as never before in his career, to bridge personal kindness with systemic kindness.

To fight for the institutionalization of the compassion he feels. To put kindness where it most counts: law.
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