Government of the People, By the People, for the People

This was a bright morning made all the brighter by an e-mail that arrived from Becky from Washington State. She wrote…

I thought of you this weekend when Washington had their caucuses. I don’t know that what is coming for the US politically will solve all of the problems created by the last 8 years of tyranny but it was so encouraging to me that I went to attend my neighborhood caucus…and almost couldn’t because is was so crowded! There were hundreds of people there. I had to park 6 blocks away and RUN to get in there in time to put my name down. So many people that we were packed in shoulder to shoulder, busting out the doors. And, per my extended family… that is how it was all across this region. My sister was told that the most her caucus had ever had was 19 people and on Saturday they were up over a thousand! In Seattle proper, Shoreline, Arlington, Everett etc etc…the Democratic caucuses were absolutely packed and folks were engrossed in the process of trying to have a say. Very refreshing …it gave me some hope that perhaps George Bush’s form of presidency may have forced the people of our country out of political apathy!

It might be premature optimism but I’m happy to see it regardless and thought you might like hearing of it.

Oh yes, I am delighted. It felt good when I mailed off my absentee ballot last week even though I knew it was only one vote. Becky’s news is even better because it means that there are a lot of other people out there who are as outraged as I am by the direction our country is going, and are responding to the call for responsible citizenship. As President Abraham Lincoln said in his Gettysburg Address, “…that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Thank you for this good news, Becky.

... P. L. Morningstar
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