Congratulations, America. You win.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

I said in another post earlier today we had finished a journey, and that today would be the day we found out if we still deserved to call ourselves a Democracy.

We do.

Now we take the first steps onto a new path- one that I believe will reshape and restore our nation. We now have the power to not only put a stop to the madness, but to begin again, and to renew The Land Of The Free. We can now begin the process of restoring the world's once-great respect for us. We can now take strides to heal some of the hurt our nation's representatives has caused throughout the world.

We can now show the Republicans what the term Democratic Republic really means.

We can now let our elected leaders know we still hold these words to be true, and we will now hold them to their intent. We can now remind them that the real power is held by the CITIZENS of America, not by a single man cowering within an office within a building that's been surrounded by guns and concrete barriers.


... When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security...


For the first time in six years I can say this and really mean it: God Bless America.

We have a nation to rebuild, people. Let's get to it.

[JeffR]

1. Well said

K & R.

[babylonsister]

2. WE win! Great feelling! nt