Great. You're tired. You're disapointed. It's a long hard slog to progresstopia.
For everyone.
Apologies to all, but those nuts over there on the right? They believe themselves, in earnest, to be at war with us.
They are fighting you. And they do not mean that figuratively. They mean it for all it's worth. If they can win with stall tactics, gossup, innuendo, boldfaced lies, denialism, voter mobilization, voter caging, false arrests, false convictions, assassinations of character, assassinations of the real kind, terrorist attacks with fertilizer, with gunshots, with conveniently missing WMDs... they'll use those methods.
All of them.
I'll say it again - The Republicans are fighting a war. Against you. They do not intend to stop unless defeated soundly or dead.
The American right is tired, too. And they're old. And they're desperate. They've been fighting progress since before there was a United States of America.
They fought to abort the birth of the USA. That's how pro-life and pro-freedom they weren't then and they aren't now.
It's not terrorists that hate us for our freedoms. The right hates them even more - because they have to share them with others, and face the prospect of equality (a word they despise over all others) with even more people, in more basic ways (including the right to marry and die for your country) that they can stomach.
Don't even get me started on how equal access to basic life-saving health care makes them feel. You don't have to. Just remember August 2009 - they threatened civil violence over it.
So, you're tired are you? Exhausted? Waiting for a D-Day that's not quite here yet? A Hiroshima finale to end the great ideological struggle?
Well, too bad. We're not as into that sort of thing as the violent vile right is. We're into, what is that word? Oh, yes. Progress. And peace. That's another good word.
For now, alas, we have to keep going, same as we have for going on three centuries.
So keep on being exhausted.
And I mean this in a good, supportive affirmative way. Really.
Because the fight to make America a better place than it was the day before starts afresh, every single morning.
If you're tired, take a breather. Quietly. You don't have to say a word or make a big speech so everyone including Republicans can see you are tired and desperate and can't take the disappointments and half-steps backward a day more.
Just take a break, rest up, freshen up and get on back in the game when it suits.
So if you're exhausted, relax. We'll manage. We have a deep bench here on the blue team.
But until the voting booths close on Election Day, it's game on.
And remember, no matter how tempting it is to chortle that you were right all along about some public policy choice or decision already made? How your prediction was spot-on? It's not the time. It won't be until the day after Election Day.
And even then, same as every other day, we will still be waking up in the morning and thinking about how to leave that day better than the one the day before.
And that work will never end.
That struggle will never end.
That fight will never end.
Exhausted? Take a break. Come back fresh and fired up when able.
We'll manage somehow in the short run, though we will miss your help, and welcome it back on your return.
Because those guys over there? They're playing a different game plan. They want to make each day more fearful, uncertain and miserable, more dependent on the favor of the powerful and privileged, than the day before.
And we're just NOT with that program. And we never will be.