A Change is Gonna Come…
…And it’s here.
For 8 years, some of us have made it through the years with this kind of determination and grit:
I am gonna make it
Through this year
If it kills me…
But, starting tomorrow, someone who cares about the values and troubles of real people will be in the White House. Miracles won’t occur overnight. America won’t suddenly gain renewed prosperity. The rest of the world won’t forget the hooded man of Abu Ghraib, but we can, through renewed engagement and hard work, return to the city on the hill (though the shine may have faded a bit). I’d be surprised if much of Obama’s domestic agenda will pass, beset as he will be with the economic mess wrought by the current administration.
But I’m hopeful. And as I brave the crowds and the cold tomorrow, there will be a lightness in my step, a smile on my lips, and a tiny bit of hope in my cynical heart. The problems we face will be new iterations of the same old ones, but we’ve solved them before, and we as a people will triumph again. So humming pride and patriotism, I will cheer:
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