LIKE A TOTAL ECLIPSE

It is going to take all of us working together so that our nation will truly live up to the ideals that it was "conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men" are created equal--and let's make that all people are/EVERYONE is created equal. 

We have been a light to the people of the world for most of our 241 years through forty-four presidents. The light never shined as bright as it could have because it was shrouded because slavery was allowed to remain and because of the way the indigenous people of our territories were treated. 

And our light of liberty that has promised the hope of refuge, justice and opportunity to suffering people in the world was threatened to be extinguished by the formation of the Confederacy and the Civil War. 

Then our light has shined brighter because of our efforts to end both of the World Wars in the 20th Century and when we fought Communist oppression in Korea and Vietnam. Even when we have delayed and faltered and come up short, until recently we have always fought against enemies who have subjugated and oppressed people while waging wars of terror against them.

Hopefully this will be like a total eclipse of the sun so that even though the light becomes covered over and most of it occluded by shadow, it will last a very short time and we will be able to remain hopeful that we will see and shine our light again.

What changed so fundamentally that we find ourselves with leadership that aids, abets and encourages all that we have fought against previously?

Some say it is backlash from those who insist that only white men should be in power and that only caucasians have a right to be Americans. Those are sickening thoughts unworthy of the descendants of our idealist founders, imperfect people though they were.

We are paying again for their inability to put their ideals into practice, demeaning and limiting them by choosing the importance of wealth over the importance of people's live and well-being.

We must stop this from happening again, and it will take all of us working together with God's help to do it.

And yes, as a friend pointed out to me today, even people who don't believe in God can recognize evil when they see it. So, of course. All of us who know evil when we see it can work together against the people who are embracing and perpetrating it.

If we don't work together, we will all suffer and so will generations of people, even those who thought it would be okay to allow this administration to be in power.

It's not okay. We need to get them out and work against those who are in league with them.

Now. 

Until we've won back our nation.

It may take a while. Nevertheless, we will persist.