(#5773) Assiduously pressing on!

      I and others are still smarting from the dumbfoundedness of the American citizenry. Yet as the pain of the election results become less acute we behind the force enlightenment persevere. We are not a collection of ragtag individuals and groups that fear intelligence more than we embrace it. We who are the tip of the spear of our own species' evolution will not falter or stop in our quest to improve and expand the human condition beyond the the dark ages of our own past. We see the future with hope and pride so we must go to it! Our fellow citizenry cannot find it within themselves to join us so their attitude is to remain in some kind of status quo limbo.
     Unfortunately, that remaining keeps the rest of us back there with them. So a new way forward is needed. A strategy that beckons even those entrenched in the ways of the past. Is it too late to do it through democracy? We shall find out but we had a rare chance this last election to make our existence and the world at large a much happier place but we instead chose chaos. What will come from the republican control of our society is not encouraging at all. Divisions and repressions are coming and how they affect us is more likely devastating and unsettling. The past belongs in the past, so going back to what was then but cannot work now is a fool's quest.
     Much like denial, the past cannot change. We need to continue to evolve whether that word evolution is popular or not. It is a fact, not a choice! Over generations of life we have seen nations come and go due to choices they themselves had made. Will America, after 248 years of a constitution based upon democratic principles, follow the same path as those other now nonexistent nations? Will we survive our diminution because we gave away our rights to think for ourselves? Being fooled by a conman is nothing new in societies around the world but my own ignorance precluded it happening here. I was absolutely wrong even though I fought against it. Now we who are left to keep up the fight must find a new reserve of resolve to employ in every second we are able going forward.