I have been crying all morning. I really can't think of what to do, I mean, it is like watching a friend die. And I keep telling myself that this hour is no darker for us than the early '60s were for conservatives, and look what they've accomplished. And I don't want to have to deal with Repugs at work. I just want this to go (miraculously) to Kerry so I can breath a qualified sigh of relief. But that's not gonna happen, is it. So option two is to go home and crawl under the covers and stay there until 2008.
My two hopes for the upcoming four years:
1. A schism in the Republican party between conservatives and neocons which leads them to lose the cohesiveness they depend on. Many of the moderate and even conservative (fiscal not compassionate) members of the party have predicted this.
2. A rallying of the Liberal base of the Democratic party around the rising stars of Newsome, Obama, Granholm, Feingold, etc. leading to a strong 2008 win of the presidency and Congress. And maybe even a strong showing in the mid-term elections in 2006 which will let us take back Congress then.
Try to smile, and remember that we can escape the bondage of conservative social policy just as so many other groups have escaped bondage in the past. In his darkest, most tortured moments on Robin's Island, Nelson Mandela never gave up hope. Elizabeth Cady Stanton never gave up hope, even though the US was the last modern country to give women the vote. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. never relinquished their hold on hope, even though Jim Crow prevailed throughout the south.
Most importantly, the men who founded this country did so out of a deep and abiding hope and belief in this experiment in representitive Democracy. We can't give up hope, if only because to do so would be to reject the very foundational precepts of America. We have to know in our hearts that people can successfully govern themselves and make the world a better place, and then we have to act.
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