This
year, 2012, saw several memorable moments but for ME the one memorable
moment was not a personal one. It was instead that moment when the
silent majority stood up with their votes and rejected the Religious
Right and Tea Party Ayn Randists about bashing the poor and the vets and
the seniors and the students and the working families and single
mothers and racism and sexism and the misogynists with their intense
focus on women's reproductive rights and the homophobes and voted
Obama BACK into office. They voted in a mixed race president who is Gen
Jones, lived abroad during his formative years (meaning he is a TCK)
who is pro-gay rights, pro women's reproductive and pay rights, pro
green energy, for the poor and vets and seniors and students and working
families and single mothers and fathers and pro CHILDREN. This year is when the dominant, dominionistic, white male hegemony found that they are NOT the majority any more.
That one moment when the usually quiet and slumbering giant awakened and
said a resounding ENOUGH was worth all the rest of the misery,
less-money-having, higher-price-paying, family-belt-tightening we had to
endure this year. It was surely worth every bit of it.
THE
SLEEPING MAJORITY HAS AWAKENED! Know that we will NOT continue to allow
the poorest and least and oldest and sickest and veterans and gays and
brown skinned and women and families among us to be persecuted,
marginalized or taxed to death. We will NOT allow the folks who pretend
to be on God's side (but who are actually on the side of the greedy
rich or themselves) to run this country. PERIOD.
We have spoken and we will not be denied.
