That Little Glimmer of Hope

After the results of Tuesday's election were in I found myself experiencing a strange emotion, one that I hadn't felt in the past five years. Democratic governors were elected in New Jersey and Virginia. Eight members of the Dover, PA schoolboard who believe that Intelligent Design is science were ousted by eight candidates who believe that science is science and that, however cleverly repackaged, Intelligent Design is religion and religion is not science. Could it be that that faint, weird sense was.....hope?

For five years we have been told that the extreme religious right agenda is 'mainstream.' For five years we have been fed a steady diet of lies about WMD, Saddam/ al-Qaida connections and whatever else the neocon criminals who have taken over the government have wanted to tell us. Could it be that the voters are finally saying 'enough is enough?' It may be worth a glimmer of hope....