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After seeing the election results come in, I am totally proud of my country and its people, moreso than I've allowed myself to be in a very long time.
As a Democrat, I'm content to take these victories we've gained here in the past 24 hours and run with them on their own merits. The seats in the House and Senate that we've gained will finally help us to staunch the bleeding that has come from four consecutive years of Republican rubber stamping, but it also represents a distinct opportunity to reassert the Constitutional principles of checks and balances which, clearly, some people (who shall remain nameless) find inconvenient.
We will finally have an opportunity to bring this Iraq war to some semblance of resolution because it is also the first time in so many years where the voices of dissent, whose ideas have been ignored, can be heard clearly.
We will finally have an opportunity to review the economy, and the damage that the current taxation scheme has wrought upon the good people in this land who must earn their paychecks day to day. We will finally be able to address the topic of minimum wage, and of the undue tax burden the middle class now faces in the wake of four horrendous years of deficit spending and cronyist gladhanding.
But most importantly, we've asserted the need for actual representation in our lawmaking bodies, directly representing the will of the voters based solely upon their casting of ballots and beholden to the desires of the not only the people who elected them but their entire constituencies.
As an American, the pride I feel is much greater, because it shows that, while our politicians may have failed us, we have not failed ourselves. We still want better. We still are unwilling to accept any little hand dealt us without question. Most of us are good people who work hard. Most of us don't wish ill on our neighbors. Most of us want a government that reflects that.
The battles are far from over. Those we've elected must now take up the banner and do us proud in the halls of Congress. Neither can WE rest, because those same ones we've deposed will be spending the next two years watching for and reporting on every mistake, casting doubt, fear, and aspersion, and resurrecting those old memes and appeals to the lesser parts of American character.
But for now I will sit back and enjoy the moment.
Congratulations America... It's a brand new day! Enjoy! :dem:
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