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Thank you, Heather, for this superb conclusion; it allows me to bypass my rant about the Republicans!

“Vox correspondent Ian Millhiser, who is a keen observer of American politics, commented tonight: ‘This was a good week for the United States of America and I may be coming down with a case of The Hope.’”

I would love to “come down with a case of The Hope,” too!

Good morning Rowshan. “The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.” Ogden Nash When the dam begins to break, it does so because the truth and the facts and more and more people finally willing to speak up presses and presses hard against the door of bigotry and oppression and slams it shut. That is what optimism is. As Churchill defined. Fighting the good fight. We are standing up and not giving in to fascist go…

Christine, I'm there with you. I've posted the following before, but it seems appropriate to do so again. As Rebecca Solnit says....“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal... To hope is to…