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MANIFESTO

Six months ago today was perhaps the most disappointing day in my life. I woke up full of hope and optimism, the sort of natural high you get from being part of something larger than yourself. Months of anticipation and conversation and debate were finally over and at last we were going to have a new person in charge, someone who wasn't beholden to the rich and the religious right and and the corporations and the oil barons, someone who could speak intelligently about the issues facing us today rather than in simpleminded platitutes. But then the returns started coming in from Pennsylvania and Florida and hope was stomped out. We were given something worse than "more of the same." We have more of "more of the same" because they now have a "mandate." More extremist. More intolerant. More theocratic. More more more. I truly fear what will happen to this country if they are allowed to accomplish all the things they are planning. Will we truly have, as Madison warned, a "tyranny of the majority?" The best I can hope for is that they will overshoot their goals, reach too far and too high a cost and finally, at long last, be seen by the majority for what they truly are and dealt with in the only acceptable way. They will be voted out.

It's a nice dream.