I do a lot of dreaming at night, but not until last night have I ever had a dream about electoral politics. It was such a vivid one, and I woke up stunned, because I’d just watched the Democratic Convention erupt in total pandemonium after voting in a Hilary/Obama ticket for 08!
This is truly strange, because at this point, while awake, I am not very impressed with either of them. But in my dream, it somehow felt so ultimately right: to have, for the first time, a woman and a black man on the ticket. And in the dream, there was NO doubt at all, that they’d win and win big.
This will not leave my mind this morning, in fact has set it off racing in many different directions.
If ever this country needed some strikingly visible symbol for the whole world to see, that we have indeed awakened from a very long and nearly fatal coma, what could be a better one? How could their be a stronger message that we know huge change is needed at the top, and that we, as a people, are brave enough to demand it and make it happen?
I know this is all intuitive rambling and pretty worthless stuff in rational terms, but what if? What if the two of them..together, could do things neither of them could ever accomplish on their own? (like get elected, for one thing!) And what if each has just what the other doesn’t have, and somehow they could/would understand that and blend their different assets? Because maybe, deep down, underneath all the political posing they both have to do for the cameras, they BOTH want the same thing very badly: to bring us back from the ragged edge, and help America become who she could be?
In order words, what if both of them are more or less pretty powerful symbols of what this country needs now, to survive and to thrive, in ways that DO serve the greater good, not just that of those at the top?
Ok.. have at it..rip away! There has to be at least two thousand reasons this a) could never happen, b)SHOULD never happen or c) I need to not eat radishes before going to sleep!
