I mentioned earlier today that I was nearly overwhelmed by happiness that America has a President again. I was happy for myself, but deep down I was happy for the country. America has more than just a President now. It has its heart back.
This election proves that the America of opportunity and fairness that I learned about and loved as a child will endure. Through the wisdom of our founding fathers and the bedrock commonsense and determination of its people, the American democracy will continue.
Over the past eight years this country has taken all that the radical right-wing could throw at it and it came come through. Beaten up and abused to be sure, but sound. I have often wondered if the democracy designed by great enlightenment minds like Jefferson and Adams could bear up against the impossible to imagine onslaught of a imbecilic President and a stridently corrupt Vice President and I am ready to say that it has.
Yes, it will take a lot of work to undo the damage that deranged ideologues in Congress and the media wrought, but we are Americans and we can do it. I’m fired up and ready to go.