Election Day

For the past two years, I have been writing about the emerging majority of citizens who are proving an alternative voice to the established leadership of both mainstream political parties. Today a coalition of young first time voters, women, African-American, Hispanic-American, college educated white Americans, and other previously under represented groups will perform the sacred duty of democratic citizenship by voting in record numbers. The authenticity of progressive candidates such Beto O'Rourke in Texas, Stacy Abrams in Georgia, Andrew Gillum in Florida, and scores of other down-ticket hopefuls throughout the country has resonated across ideological lines and engendered a level of enthusiasm for real change in our political life while offering an emphatic repudiation of the current administration. As Leonard Cohen poetically predicted in song: 'democracy is coming to the USA'.