We won, but I did not cry.
Paul Krugman says that means something's wrong with me, but I don't think so.
See, I didn't cry because I expected the result, with the exception of a few states that we flipped.
I expected it not because I had some great faith in America as a whole, but because I saw the Obama machine from the inside from the early days of the primary and onward.
I realized early that there is absolutely nothing in the whole world that can stand in the way of so many committed, hardworking, intelligent people organizing from the ground up, block by block, neighbor by neighbor.
We didn't just elect the first African-American president-- we broke an entire generations' worth of political strategy.
We broke the Confederacy with a black candidate.
We spat in Lee Atwater's face and sent the Right down in flames, while all along they were babbling about Socialists, Terrorists, Ant-Semites and 60's Radicals as if anybody still gave a shit.
We changed the face of politics irrevocably, and no one should forget how we did it, because the same kind of hard work and dedication will be required in the future if we really want a a progressive America.
This is my testament to what we built, in the hopes that we can carry it into the future. Enjoy.
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