Reply #17: I was in that boat yesterday; I'm some better today -- [View All]

[DeepModem Mom]

Sometimes just given a little time, a hopeless funk lifts. Oddly, HamdemRice's thread, "Does Bush's Walk Bother Anyone Else?" helped -- what a cathartic GD outpouring! And talking to my Gen Y daughter almost always helps. She says even if the worst happens, and Bush wins, it helps her already to know, from being involved in primary meet-ups and as the campaign gets started, that there are so many people on our side -- people she has met, plus the Jon Stewarts and Al Frankens who entertain us with truth. And she hasn't read "The Emerging Democratic Majority," but she sees a better time coming as her generation emerges and grows up. She says, "We skew young, we skew Hispanic, and we are the future." She says even many conservatives her age have a liberal mindset on issues of tolerance, and think more globally than their elders.

I also have a quotation from "Harry Potter" posted above my desk. I think our "Voldemort" is already in power, but all is not yet lost, and the idea that there is value in keeping on fighting even if delay is the only accomplishment gives me strength:

Dumbledore to Harry -- "Harry, while you may only have delayed (the return to power of the evil Voldemort), it will merely take someone else who is prepared to fight what seems a losing battle next time -- and if he is delayed again and again, why, he may never return to power."

If good people keep working, if only to delay the complete loss of what our country has been, and leave something of it to our kids, the wheel, I hope, will eventually turn.