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1. "Nothing will stop @JoeBiden" is being said by some folks who have had the unenviable experience of being blamed for splitting the vote and thus "letting the @GOP/@realDonaldTrump win." I've never wanted certainty turned on its ear for so many people, in so many ways.
2. And though Marianne Williamson bewildered me with many of her words last night, she and many others brought to the #DemDebate new, progressive perspectives and brave expressions of both outrage and hope. I'm with her in hoping love will win, and praise her for invoking it.
3. If, despite the fact that the Top Two parties are demonstrably *unequally* corrupt, they are sufficiently corrupt that we can not rescue some hope from the good ideas expressed in the #DemDebate ... if @DNC truly hands us a predetermined outcome, great will be our woe in 2020.
4. No non-Top-Two party has delivered on consensus for change. I acknowledge the role of a Consent Manufacturing machine that keeps the Top Two on top, in this phenomenon. The powerful have done much, all over the political mainstream, to stay powerful.
5. Just as I don't think we've ever had a non-manipulated form of American Christianity that did not get appropriated to justify empire building, enslavement, & extermination, I don't think we've ever yet been free of corruption: by industry, patriarchy, mass media manipulation.
6. So where does this leave us who are hopeful? Particularly, where does this leave us who are hopeful but who also see on what side the bread is buttered & are pursuing that hope within some sort of mainstream avenue: i.e., voting for a Top Two Party candidate within the System?
7. Some reading this will say that any joy from #DemDebate, any hope, any happiness is of the Jonathan Swift variety: the happiness of being well-deceived. I simply reply that good outcomes, brought about by good people, have often surprised, have come from an unexpected quarter.
8. And it won't be schadenfreude, really, because the world will have become a better place, in ways we perhaps hoped but never seriously expected - but I can't wait to see the looks on the faces of the certain when we are finally delivered from all this harm.
9. Because there is some truth in the saying that "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." That was condensed from an American abolitionist minister who pushed against cultural and political tendencies of his day, in the mid-nineteenth century.
10. Reverend Theodore Parker saw reason to hope. I still see reason not to abandon it, even in this age of Top Two parties who game outcomes, a mass media that manufactures consent, a @realDonaldTrump presidency, & folks who sigh that this-or-that establishment guy is a shoe-in.
11. In short, to those justifiably or unjustifiably full of certitude, who also love to toss out, "I hope I'm wrong": I hope you're wrong, too. No offense intended.
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