There seems to be a contradiction between this expression of a calm acceptance of what one of the business parties is bringing us, and the quotation from Douglass that accompanies it.
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 LeoCasey at aol.com wrote:
> ... I have always believed that a Gore victory was an essential
> precondition for the forward progress of the mass movements of the
> left in this nation ...
>
> Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never
> will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess
> to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops
> without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and
> lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
> -- Frederick Douglass --