(A red/pink toned AI generated image of a neon road leading to a bright futuristic city) It’s a gray one, after some serious thunderstorms, and change is in the air. Not just staving off that roiling, sinister cloud that is convicted felon trump and republicans and Project 2025, not just holding on to democracy by our worn out fingertips, but real change.
A full on path to the future.
As Vice President and Presumptive Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris says: “We won’t go back.”
We won’t go back.
It’s the perfect framing of what we have all known, what has formed that pit in our stomachs, of that underlying anxiety trump and republicans can cause even when not in power.
They could be in power. And what they want serves only them.
It’s no wonder, then, that young people are registering to vote and to volunteer in amazing numbers, are more energized than they’ve been in their short or shorter political lives. Harris offers much more than survival; she is a human embodiment of those glistening images of futuristic cities.
For a long time it felt like we were on the wrong path, on the wrong track, in the wrong timeline. Pres. Biden guided us through the dark, barren, dystopian wasteland of wrong, back to where there was green and light and flowers and birds and brightness again.
And yet like The Nothing in The Neverending Story, that fear has stayed close on his heels, aided and supported by a snapping media.
But still, he pushed onward, through the onslaught, back to the right path, the right track, the right timeline. Almost with an audible click. And we could never be more grateful.
And now VP Harris will take us on a highspeed rail into the future, leaving that darkness behind us, refusing the demands to stop the train and turn around.
We’re no longer fleeing, we’re no longer defending, we’re no longer within reach of those ghastly skeletal fingers of a past only the rotted of heart want as a tomorrow.
Finally, it feels like we will shake all of this for good, as long as we vote, as long as everyone votes, as long as we get the Democratic majorities we need to firmly plant ourselves in the 21st century, for once and for all.
Meanwhile, this song from REO Speedwagon feels apt, stuck in my head as it’s been since they used it in Cobra Kai. “If you’re tired of the same old story, turn some pages,” indeed.
Have a great Wednesday.
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