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Okay, time to step back for a moment. Somebody will make a liar out of me but I never remember seeing this spontaneity all over the country ever before over an election. (The images in this post are from Reuters in metro.co.uk so they are going to be of goings-on in the major U.S. cities but I have seen similar photos in Los Angeles, Louisville, Kentucky, and a video in front ofthe state house in Harrisburg, Pennslyvania. They were ringing the bells all over Paris, for crissakes.) Obama 2008? Make a liar out of me but I cannot recollect it. Reagan? No. I don't think this has ever happened before in America. Another thing: so many young people and soo good to see that. Cheering and honking and singing for a 77 year-old White guy who beat a 74 year-old White guy. We're coming together. All colors, creeds, ages, we're all coming together again. And on that note the most hopeful image for me today was of Trump supporters and Biden supporters arms around each other praying together in Lansing, Michigan. Let's reach out, each of us, to somebody we know on the other side and let's move on. This was a remarkably incident-free election and I commended Trump supporters for it previously. None of the worst-case scenarios that were gamed out came about, not even close. And this damn thing took awhile! Yet, there was no violence. America was touched with the better angels of its soul this week as we snatched our democracy out of the jaws of authoritarianism.
