Another, more beautiful America is rising. Trump will be resisted

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/29/america-trump-californian-senate
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The time when you don’t need hope is when your hopes have been fulfilled. Hope is for when you don’t have what you need and for when things are not OK. It is the belief that liberation might be possible that motivates you to make it more possible, and pursuing hope even when it doesn’t lead to the ultimate goal can generate changes that matter along the way, including in yourself.

A dozen years ago I talked about hope to a roomful of working-class community college students in Washington, citing the German philosopher Ernst Bloch to the effect that without hope there is no action but without action there is no hope. A woman said in a clear voice that she agreed, because if she had not hoped she would not have struggled and if she had not struggled she would not have survived Pol Pot and the Cambodian genocide.

That floored me. Sometimes hope is just that you will survive, or that you will escape. Then you can hope for more. I wish I knew her story, but that she was in North America, alive and well and confident enough to speak out, told me something of it. Even despotic regimes end, though it’s important to remember that not everyone and everything survives; you can be devastated for what won’t and hopeful for what will at the same time.

In the United States we are probably headed for a very grim phase of uncertain duration. We will see much that we love under attack – but it’s worth remembering that a lot of this is nothing new. From oil pipelines to human rights, there have been massive incursions over the past 16 years against nature, against equality, against governmental transparency. We are not exiting a utopia, and human rights organisations that are currently rising to a greater challenge have not been idle for lack of work in the Obama era.

[Alekzander]

1. Thanks Maliase, good read.

[mountain grammy]

2. Thank you..good read.

[gordianot]

3. The best analogy I have heard was comparing Trump to an enema.

The anticipation of a good cleaning out hope it works.

[lunatica]

4. The more we see Trump for what he is the more we can fight him effectively

The issue is that we have to be smart enough to see him for what he is. Knowledge truly is power.

[colsohlibgal]

5. 60-70 year Cycles Historically

About the length of collective memory. We have gone through Robber Baron times then the great middle wakes up and we go back he other way.

This is a different time technology wise but let us hope the middle soon figures out quickly that they have been suckered once more.

[Jacob Boehme]

6. I have a dream of this man-child tRump.

Convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors, frog-marched out of the Oval Office in handcuffs and serving 20 to life in a Federal pen.

[volstork]

7. From your lips

to god's ear, I hope!