I've realized that I'm relieved, but still generally uneasy.
We are still mortgaging our children's children's world, as if we can feel innocence at the inevitability of decay.
But at least it doesn't feel as if I'm riding on someone else maniacal roller coaster ride. Now, I feel as if I'm at least hanging of the end of a moving tractor trailer.
As a result, I can't enjoy the stolid solitude of sitting by the sidelines, urging on my special soccer players, knowing we will never win. And pat ourselves on the back whenever we just get the ball moving offensively.
We now have a huge whole to run through, as the power dynamics shift, however subtly.
I feel as if I may be one of a handful of people in this country, maybe the only one, who sees the potential and connection between disability rights and faith-based organizing.
These are the types of issues groups, given a base quickly in the next four years, who can determine how the center shifts and maneuvers. If we can make social justice issues ring with such clarity that each party is held accountable by how we treat our most vulnerable, globally, and how we include as many voices in our democratic process as simply stated in our constitution, we can make sure these ideas continue to spread and advance enough that they become part of our shared heritage, the same we we look back at those who worked to end slavery, those who worked to enforce civil rights.
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