If Obama could point to the people tonight and say that we elected him, than we must realize the power we hold and use it. We must exercise our leverage on government to get the policies we need---the change we need as he put it throughout this election.
I voted for Nader/Gonzalez and I stand by my vote. But, I will not simply congratulate Barack Obama on a truly historic upward career move despite the fact that he largely ignored class and race and militarism and religion.
I will acknowledge that the paradigm for those wishing to become public citizens has shifted greatly and will now spark optimism and idealism in youth all over America.
I now look to the American people who said we had to wait until the election is over and then we could go to work and say to them, “Okay now, let’s go to work.”
The battle has just begun. A new administration is going to be in Washington come January but the corporations and special interests will still be pulling the strings.
This two-party system will either prove itself to be a disastrous wreck, or our people power will show that maybe something can be squeezed out of it after all.
So let’s get to work and shift the power from the few to the many.
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