Awakening

It is as slight as the first tremors of an earthquake, when you are not really sure what is happening, but it is there. America is awakening, and its citizens are deciding that enough is enough, just as the world has been hoping for so long that they would do.

I read on Saturday that 25 million have already voted,under the absentee ballot system, and over the weekend the TV newsreels showed queues of people stretching for hundreds of yards, waiting patiently to vote, people who perhaps knew they would not be able to make the commitment on Tuesday. America is voting,and the listlessness, the sense that nobody is listening, has vanished. They know that every vote counts, and they are determined that they will not squander this opportunity: they hear a voice, and they are listening.

I think that America is about to find its position in the world again, not the voice of vested interests, but the voice which has rallied the world to its dreams for more than two hundred years.