America has awakened!

And not just in the colloquial sense of "woke". Awakened to the fact that we have never stood for authoritarianism, really do want a Department of Defense and not War, want our legislators to seek practical solutions that recognize differing needs and values, have never taken to be talked down to and pigeonholed with labels and name-calling or forced into believing that just because we live in a digitalized world doesn't mean everything has to be polarized into good or evil, black or white.

And one of the most encouraging things I saw was a report that the predominate flipping from red to blue was in the reddest of counties, districts, localities not the marginally red or purple districts. In other words, the Tsunami came not just from a larger voter turnout and the normal erosion of midterms, but a sign that the most enthusiastic supporters of Trump and MAGA were beginning to see through the empty promises, the outright lies and distortions.

Now comes the hard part. How to constructively rebuild our great democracy together, red and blue, conservative and liberal, working together and finding common purposes without just embarking on a tit for tat prosecution and punishment reign of terror from the opposite pole.