We the People will prevail

The holidays provide an apt time to pause and assess where we are.

- Robert Reich

You have every reason to be worried about what happens after January 20.

Many people could be harmed.

Yet I continue to have an abiding faith in the common sense and goodheartedness of most Americans, despite the outcome of the election.

Many traditional Democratic voters did notvote either because they were upset about the Biden administration's support for Benjamin Netanyahu or because they were unmoved by Kamala Harris. Others chose Trump because their incomes have gone nowhere for years, and they thought the system needed to be "shaken up." An explanation is not a justification.

There have been times when I doubted America. I think the worst was 1968, with the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and then Bobby Kennedy, the riots and fires that consumed our cities, the horrific Democratic convention in Chicago along with protests and violent police response, the election of the dreadful Nixon, and the escalating carnage of Vietnam.

It seemed to me then that we had utterly lost our moral compass and purpose.