Next steps? May be simple

The news papers, the blogosphere, the left, are all wondering, What do we do now? The US has elected, through the electoral college, a man who is the least qualified and most divisive person in modern times. Donal Trump won primarily because of his demagoguery, but also because the major new media played this demagoguery over and over and over, without questioning it until it was too late. What do "people of good will" do now?

We need signs and messages of hope. Bobby Kennedy provides one such message through the echoes of history: one small act sends forth a ripple of hope. It was so wonderful to run into this quote as I walked into a coffee shop today. That ripple spurred on this little offering of mine, which I hope is ripple to any who reads it. For it is multiple ripples of hope that build a current and sweep away the walls of oppression.

We are not lost my dear people. Or as the song says,

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But as long as a man
Has the strength to dream
He can redeem his soul and fly

Sitting at Mass on Christmas eve, my spirit lit up on here the first reading:

The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light;
upon those who dwelt in the land of gloom
a light has shone.

We have walked in darkness so long. The last 18 months have been a gloom, for when Trump first announced his candidacy, I predicted what many people feared and many others thought impossible.

But a great light still shines for us, for we are that light. One man can do nothing without our permission. We each have a respondsibility to make ripples.