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I have been asked time after time over the past year and a half, “Is there any hope for America’s Democracy and, if there is, where is it to be found?"
I’ve always answered, “Yes, there is always hope, even in the midst of seeming hopelessness, and we can find that hope in the American People. The American People will never allow their democracy to fail."
I had this thought again this morning when I saw that Thursday’s tweet of a quotation from one of our Founding Fathers to another almost 230 years ago has been viewed over 2.3 million times in the past thirty-six hours. I could not have imagined.
I want to believe that this response to a mere quotation from the distant past is itself evidence that there is hope, evidence that we Americans are desperate for answers to the questions of our times, “Who have we Americans become? Is this who we want to be?
And if it is not, who is it that we Americans want to be, and what is it that we want our America to be?”
I am as certain of this as I've ever been of anything: Once we Americans do begin to ask these questions of ourselves, the answers will come fast. We will not fail our America. We will save our imperiled democracy from those who want for its demise.
That's my Thanksgiving wish, at least!
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