A Break in the Clouds

The resiliency of the American people is refreshing, isn’t it?  It has taken a full year of living with Trump and his propwash for the body of our politic that is the majority to awaken from their slumber and show their displeasure with the state of our nation.  Tuesday’s election was an across the board repudiation of the hate, the racism, the division that has been the hallmark of the Trump Administration.

Take a look at the faces of the new legislators that will take their seats in Virginia.  Out of 15 state legislature seats that changed parties to Democratic, 11 of them are women replacing men!  Those women won on issues from healthcare to climate change.  Inclusiveness and diversity were the watchwords of these winners as opposed to scare tactics and fear.

I have been certain for the last several years as I watched the slow progression of our politics descend into self-interest and greed that the only way to reverse the trend was to rouse the populace to vote.  Well, it looks like the populace is ‘roused’.  Over the past year we have seen a whole crowd of newly minted activists arise out of somnolescent citizens.  Angry wives, Moms, unlikely politicians at best, they have risen to take their place as active citizens at all levels of government.  I have a friend in the suburbs of Philadelphia who was ecstatic that Democratic candidates he supported at the local school board level had defeated a whole crop of incumbent Republicans.  There is a ‘wave’ that is definitely on the horizon…a redemptive wave that spells the return of American politics to a place where crass and embarrassing politics are repudiated, where insults and division are rejected in favor of compassion and reaching out to help the less fortunate.

The heart and soul of America resides in acceptance of our differences and equality of opportunity for all citizens.  That means that things like healthcare and tax reform are meant to help those in the most need, not just the really wealthy who don’t need the help.  Let’s hope that the wave on the horizon is just the beginning.  Let’s hope that the wave continues to grow as the anger at being led by a narcissist maniac and his minions to the degraded state of perception by the rest of the world increases.

I will say it again:  the true salvation of our society and our way of life rests with the responsibility of each one of us to be aware of the issues and VOTE.

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Let me say it louder:  VOTE!  It is the right that countless thousands of our citizens died for.  It is the salvation of our country.