We're Going To Get There

[NanceGreggs]

We're going to get there.

It’s going to take time and patience, a fair share of angst and a lot of hope – a commitment to our ideals, and the courage of our convictions.

But we are going to get there.

It’s happening, and it’s spreading. It’s letters to editors, it’s phone calls to politicians. It’s being transmitted by phone and text; it’s being blogged about, bragged about, passed around and passed on. It’s word of mouth, word of head, word of heart. It’s action and reaction – and it won’t be stopped.

There is a great awakening in this nation. People who have been lulled to sleep by the monotonous repetition of half-truths are seeing the light. People who have been fooled by the complicity of a lazy media are opening their eyes.

The lunatic fringe, compelled by self-imposed ignorance, are exposing themselves for who they are – puppets of a party whose goals are now transparent. The hate-mongers, driven by bigotry, are losing the financial support that once gave them a voice. The fear merchants are going out of business, bereft of consumers now wary of their wares.

Labor unions are speaking up for the true core of our nation, the workers. Grassroots organizations are speaking out for the true government of our nation, the People. Ordinary citizens who have had enough are weighing in – and they will not be out-shouted, out-smarted, or out-numbered. They will be not only heard, but heeded; they will be not only listened to, but understood.

Those who voted for change will not be content to ask for it, but will demand it. Those who voted for a new day will not settle for old ways.

The sense of community is growing stronger; the concept of divide-and-conquer will not be tolerated, nor endured. Our place as a nation will be recaptured; our standing as a global neighbor will be re-evaluated, redefined, reclaimed.

This is no longer a matter of one man in the White House, one party in power, one topic to be debated, one subject to be discussed. This is about one voice of a People saying, “No more, I have had enough.”

We are going to get there – not because it’s our time to choose, our moment to speak, our hour to be heard – but because it is what is right, what is just, what is fair.

We are going to get there. Don’t abandon courage; your neighbor has your back. Don’t give up hope; your fellow citizen will spur you on and see you through. Don’t give up the dream; your inner self will give you strength, and show you the way to the reality that is only limited by what you have been told you should not, cannot dare imagine. But imagine it – if you will.

We are going to get there. We will not be dismissed, distracted, deterred. We will not be mis-informed, mis-appropriated, or misled. We will not be cajoled, compromised nor placated. No, we won’t be – never again.

We are going to get there. We have lost a flag-bearer, but not the cause which his standard symbolized. We have lost a man who was committed, but not our sense of honour in the concept of commitment. We have lost a leader – but his followers endure.

We are going to get there. We will arrive at our destination, perhaps scarred and battle-weary, a little worse for wear.

But we are going to get there. And one who has passed will rejoice, and welcome us all home – never having doubted for a moment that we would end up where we were meant to be all along.

We are going to get there. He believed it. If you don’t, or can’t or WON’T, you’re going to miss out on one hell of finish-line party.

BYOB. A reminder of the euphoria that comes with dreams realized will be provided by the host.

[knixphan]

1. Amen!

[Wetzelbill]

2. k and r

[grantcart]

3. The victory today motivates us to get two tomorrow.

[Divine Discontent]

4. "No more, I have had enough" ---- yes. the people with blinded eyes are starting to awaken to the

fact that the inciters of filth that they've been listening to are blathering idiots. The more Beck spews forth his wild venom, the more it sprays back on his own face in the winds of change blowing him right down!


Keep the dream alive!

[Chipper Chat]

5. Mucho thanks for the POSITIVE message Nance.

We need more of it.
I will start with myself!
Maybe other DUers and all Americans will follow.

[eShirl]

6. Good morning, Nance.

And thanks. Your posts are always worth reading.

[mother earth]

7. The cause endures....YES we will.

[DeeDeeNY]

8. Thanks Nance. I needed that.

After watching teabaggers invade my neighborhood yesterday with their stupid signs.

[dccrossman]

9. Thanks Nance

Your posts are one of the reasons I keep coming back to DU.

The increasing desperation of the lunatic fringe shows that they also realize that the winds are changing.

[JohnnyLib2]

10. Wonderful timing for these thoughts.....

Rec.

[madamesilverspurs]

11. A cup of coffee, a comfy chair,

and a precisely invigorating dose of Nance Greggs. What a grand way to start the week!

[rosesaylavee]

12. Yes, WE will do this thing...

And I am very much looking forward to the Party afterwards.

[nevergiveup]

13. "No more, I have had enough"

Yep....I just turned 65.....time is getting short.....I have had it with the crazies on the right ......I have had it with the pessimists/defeatists on the left .......we are going to do it....I feel it in these old bones......my faith is intact.....see you all at the finish line.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. K&R my dear Nance...

K&R

Yes We Will!

Well said, sweetie...as always...

[Duval]

15. Wow! Needed that burst of enthusiasm! n/t

[Arugula Latte]

16. Thanks for the shot of hope.

But what is BYOB? "Bring your own balls" or something?

[Voltaire]

17. To paraphrase Deval Patrick on Friday

I LOVES me some Nance Greggs!!!!

[Cha]

18. Yes We Will.

And, it will be in spite of all the forces against it, including the corporatemediawhores who were For the War On Iraq but against Public Option in our Health Reform Bill.

[Demeter]

19. From Your Lips to God's Ears

and may the word get out before it's too late.

[midnight]

20. Right on!

“No more, I have had enough.”

[berni_mccoy]

21. I <3 Nance! Thank you. K&R!

[Hutzpa]

22. Right on sister!

Right on, it may seemed like eternity but 50 years is not forever....

[The Wizard]

23. Inspiring

This should be read at the start of all town hall meetings.
I'm sending it to my Congressman and asking him to use it, with attribution of course.

[Lifelong Protester]

24. I love you Nance!

And you just inspired me to write my Congressman and two senators again for the umpty-umth time, but I ain't qittin'!

See you at that finish line party. I'll be there.

[nolabear]

25. We so need this kind of optimism and motivation now.

It's a fact that the brain responds to things we are told as if they were real, and the more vulnerable we feel the more we respond that way. The RW engagfes in the MOST egregious abuse of the elderly and the financially insecure with their fearmongering diatribes simply so that they can use them to prevent the left from having any effectiveness in trying to get the job done and their collective hands out of the national till.

Write on, Sister. You're doing a world of good.

[BrklynLiberal]

26. K&R...sorry can only rec one time

[Undercurrent]

27. Thanks!

Positive words are powerful! We need more encouragement to make the changes we need.

[bjobotts]

28. Thanks for the encouragment Nance.Much appreciated.One gets weary repeating oneself over and over

[bjobotts]

29. "Tolerance" is a founding principle of a Democracy."Intolerance" is a GOP principle

[bjobotts]

30. The minority cannot stand any other way but theirs finding someway to disrupt and prevent a majority

from governing. Unless they win an election then it doesn't count and they do everything in their power to make sure the will of the people is thwarted,,,until they can lie and trick their way back into power...and dealing with them is so tiresome as they refuse to listen to anything that doesn't fit into their already formed opinion. Look at Palin...does nothing but bitch, lie, criticize, blame and condemn while offering no plans or solutions. It get tiresome just having to correct her every week...same with McCain and so many others..."a five yr spending freeze" would have sunk the nation...and not one of those who brought us our current disaster has thanked Obama for bringing us back from the edge of the Great Republican Depression II. They have no right to even demand to be heard as we combat the destruction of every policy they tried to put in place. Now we have to combat their buddies in the dem party known as "conservadems" who also are owned by the special interests like pharma and priv. HC ins. companies.

We do get weary but we will get there. Necessity demands change and HC reform or it will destroy us. Denial is not a solution and neither is doing nothing.
But we will get there. I'm with you Nance. Special interests' money or no there are too many of us to be ignored on this issue any longer. We will be heard and our demands heard or priv ins and pharma will not do business in this country at all. A little profit just wasn't good enough...they went too far demanding gold jets and marble toilets...after all, they are not "mega-church pastors".

[me b zola]

31. K&R

[Oldtimeralso]

32. Gee Nance I Get Medicare In March

does this mean that I only have 6 months more to live?

[JimWis]

33. I agree. It is slowly happening. K&R

[Honeycombe8]

34. We CAN'T give up. We MUST get health care for all. We simply MUST!

I'm not quite as optimistic as you...that we WILL get this accomplished. But I haven't given up and am still hopeful. I do not see the public option as dead.

[704wipes]

35. kick for the wee hours

nt