A Glimmer of Hope

It's been a long time coming.

2020 Could be the year that hope in the future is reborn. It's been a dark year, but if you think about the last 10 years, our future has gone from gloomy to dark. 

2010 That's the year conservatives took control of both both houses. They yearned for the way things used to be. They got their wish in 2016 when they elected Trump. Democracy and the hope for a better future for all of us has taken several steps back.

What are we losing under Trump and his conservative cohort?

• The right to vote
• Equal =justice and civil rights for minorities
• Women's rights
• Fair housing laws
• A clean and safe environment
• A widening of the wealth gap
• Freedom of religion (This is not the same as religious freedom)
• Freedom of speech
• Life, Liberty and the pursuit Happiness

Seems pretty dark. Then, I saw this quote in Verse and Voice from Angela Davis.

Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.

Since I'm a child of the 60's, I was reminded of this lyric.

Turn turn any corner
Hear you must hear what the people say
You know there's something that's goin' on around here
The surely, surely, surely won't stand the light of day, no   

-David Crosby

Crosby says, "It was written the night Bobby Kennedy was killed. I believed in him because he said he wanted to make some positive changes in America, and he hadn't been bought and sold like Johnson and Nixon - cats who made their deals years ago with the special interests in this country in order to gain power. I thought Bobby, like his brother, was a leader who had not made those deals. I was already angry about Jack Kennedy getting killed and it boiled over into this song when they got his brother, too."