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January 30, 2006

The Start of Something Promising

by AltHippo @ 10:15 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

I couldn’t agree with Jane more:

I got a sense in reading the comments that some seismic shift was happening, that people finally realized that enough was enough. Something had to be done, someone had to start agitating for change and it wasn’t going to come from within the Democratic establishment.

Something is different today from yesterday. We’re all a bit more engaged in the process than we were 24 hours before.

I’ve had that perception a couple of times in the last five years. The first was when Howard Dean decided to run for president, while making it clear that he was opposed to the war in Iraq. I think that changed the debate. Suddenly, it was okay to say something that might not poll well, but put a voice to what a lot of us were thinking. The second was as I marched in the protest on September 24 last fall. In both situations, the conventional wisdom was set aside for a less conventional take on reality. We live in a country where we all have a voice in establishing the rules under which we’re governed.

When we stop paying attention, the country stops becoming a government by the people, and instead becomes a government that favors the favored.

When we pay attention, it’s brilliant.

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