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The vastness is too much, so much we may miss the implications forever.
What we don't have is a solidifying concrete of tyranny and fixed elections, that already had cause despair and hopeless notions of armed revolt, "uprisings" or for the fainter of heart- immigration to Utopia. Defeat has measured the evil and shown its failing proportions without ever really confronting it totally and truthfully(which, in the murk of these years is a big reason we cannot grasp the extent of this peaceful victory).
What we do have is something the "wiser" Dems had presumed for this year if we just avoided the daylight of too much truth. That makes the success also murky and leaves the problem of the self-justifying DLC. I say a little because we, and this election is miraculously a "WE" did not follow their game plan. They followed ours even to, with incredible reluctance, ditching the GOP dream candidate Hillary- who indeed it might be argued would have won this race as well- though arguably by a much thinner margin.
It is hard to realize because only Obama was articulating the movement for change and generally the populace is repressed and distracted from getting a decent act together on an agenda. Though he articulated it and led, it has become much vaster, a newborn(born again?) democracy through overwhelming a much corrupted and threatened routine process.
We have won the chance to save America and many many people's survival- if not humanity itself. We have won back the power to get to work. Evil cannot succeed because it already gave up on doing the right thing. That contradiction is eventual death. Its raw power is always a cheat. The shame of the Bush Captivity has been repudiated but we have a lot to prove to ourselves as the price of allowing it.
In short though, yeah, we did it.
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