Something's afoot in the popular mood, and it's going to be disappointed. We can work with that, no?
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I've already started telling my friends -- from whom I never hid my, by mainstream standards, harsh opinions about Obama's centrist Dem policies -- that beyond the celebrations of our first black President (and yeah, it was a purely scifi moment which I dug witnessing -- plus, contingencies aside, the bitter tears of reactionaries make me laugh like Genghis watching a city burn) we have a responsibility to apply unrelenting pressure to the new administration.
Because, after all's said and done, if we still have, for example, a Dept. of Homeland Security and no de-carbonization fixated national energy policy (among so many other items) we will have failed to make the sort of changes desperately needed, or even take toddler steps towards those changes.
This is well received because instead of seeming like grumpy mood spoiling from Cranky McRadical Pants it's a call to arms for each and every one of us -- the exceptionally proud minorities, starting with African Americans and jubilantly spilling over (I've observed) to Latinos y Latinas, Asian Americans and Native Americans along with the millions of whites who felt they were simultaneously voting for the right guy while doing the right thing -- to carry on with a positive program.
Now, as Dennis P correctly points out, the question is: what organizations exist or will exist to channel this energy?
That's the focus now. Is it possible to turn these many dreams into even partial reality?
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