A Glimmer

It can be hard for me not to stick with a notion I expressed 10 or 15 years ago one night out drinking with my buds.

"This country's damned near dead, and all we're doing is wrangling over who gets to do what with the corpse once it tips into the abyss."

But when I watch and listen, I can pick up a few signals - inadvertent or otherwise - from the people out there in cyberspace, which seem to be kinda hopeful.

To wit:

There's something oddly hopeful in speaking about "going down in history".

If we're to have any chance to look back at this chapter of our history, and see the Trump family for the shit-birds they are, then we have to be thinking democracy will win and we'll still be here - or our kids will be, or their kids.

Sometimes, all it takes is a glimmer.