For the past few months, I’ve hoped that this evening I’d have something about which to gloat. But since about this time last night, I’ve had the immortal words of the inimitable Terry Gilliam, as delivered by an understated Bobby D on a seeming endless loop in my head:
“Listen, kid. We’re all in this together.”
There are likely to be many on the side on which I’ve been standing who are looking to destroy those on the other side, as a manner of repudiating the thinking and damage done in the last eight years. I fully expected to be one.
This morning my realization that I wasn’t in that camp prompted me to remember a well-respected Republican admonishing:
“Why, madam, do I not destroy [my enemies] when I make them my friends?”
It’s going to take every one of us to roll up our sleeves, pull the wheel, and turn the Ship of State off the suicidal course on which it has been directed for the last 8 years.
Let it begin with me. Yes we can.
