Tomorrow...

[WilliamPitt]

Tomorrow
by: William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Monday 03 November 2008

It has been a long and terrible time since tomorrow mattered as much as it does today.

It began with that first terrible election, the media manipulations, the stolen and uncounted votes, the menacing mobs, and a decision by the highest court which sealed our doom. A man who was not chosen came to possess an office he was unworthy of, and everything that since has come to pass now seems almost preordained, fated, inevitable.

We have seen tax cuts which looted our Treasury and further enriched the wealthy, we have seen presidential vetoes of legislation designed to heal the sick and feed the children, and we have seen executive orders designed to shatter the Constitution and erase our rights. We have seen annihilation by fire and water visited upon our cities and ourselves. We have seen wars and rumors of wars. We have seen fear visited upon the populace by design. We have seen terrorists, and all too often, they have been us.

We have known death, and disgrace, and failure, and greed, and theft, and shame, and utter lawlessness. We have lost hope, and been afraid, and fallen to exhaustion and despair. We have seen torture and murder stamped with the seal of highest approval, and we have become what we despise.

But tomorrow is a different matter.

Tomorrow is a place of definitions, where change may come and be welcome even in the smallest degree. Tomorrow will see millions upon millions from every national nook and cranny pour forth in celebration of their own lone and lonesome voices.

Tomorrow, we will know.

It has been a long, strange and entirely preposterous course that has brought us today to the edge of our next tomorrow. Millions of new voters rewrote an old, calcified map. Fifty states one and all had their say, and their say mattered to the last of it. Money mattered less than organization, less than passion, less than hope, less than tomorrow.

There are many eyes upon us today as we prepare to step into tomorrow. The eyes of those lost in fire and smoke of a bright September morning watch us, the eyes of those lost in needless battle watch us, the eyes of those subsumed by an invading sea watch us, the eyes of those lost to disease and poverty and greed watch us, the eyes of all those lost who should not be so are upon us, they remember what we did yesterday, and they will see us tomorrow.

What they call change is nothing more than choice. Tomorrow is another choosing, perhaps the greatest of our lives. Something will happen, and afterward, we will know.

Tomorrow has come at last.

Link: http://www.truthout.org/110308J

[NWPatriot]

1. Tomorrow...

"..Tomorrow...I love ya...Tomorrow...You're only a day a-waaaaayyyyyy!"

Oh, come on...SOMEONE had to do it!!

[NanceGreggs]

2. ...

:patriot:

[Dennis Donovan]

3. It's been a long eight years...

...starting with the theft of 2000. So much has happened since then - my head spins just thinking about it.

One thing is certain - DemocraticUnderground has been a life-ring for me, personally.

Recommended.:thumbsup:

[Carni]

12. A long shitty HORRENDOUS eight years!

If the people opt for another four or eight of this then I just give it all up!

[xochi]

41. People will not opt for it, but the powers that be won't relinquish their power

without trying to steal another election from the people.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/26/112912/81/554/642200

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/Cybersecurity_expert_raises_allegations_of_2004_0717.html

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Vote-Grab-Voting-mach-by-Peter-Tatchell-081104-816.html

http://www.jhu.edu/news/home03/jul03/rubin.html

[Carni]

44. True!

That doesn't make it any easier to digest if the unthinkable happens... but you're right!

[bigtree]

4. .

:kick:

[barbtries]

5. i can't get it out of my mind

just can't stop thinking about it.

maybe after tomorrow. amen

[kentuck]

6. Finally, it is here...

But I don't know if I am happier because George W Bush is leaving or because we will have a new President, hopefully Barack Obama. Either way, it is a time to celebrate.

[lpbk2713]

7. May we never forget the past eight years of "yesterdays".

The sun will come out, tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow, there'll be sun
Jus' thinkin' about, tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow
'til there's none

[GoneOffShore]

8. K&R

Thank you Will.

You have moved me to tears once again.

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Well said...and I want to thank everyone who helped make it possible.

Particularly, Howard Dean.
:patriot:

[YvonneCa]

10. Our country has been tested. The lessons of the past eight...

....years have been painful. As one who believed the lessons of 2000-2004 had been learned by Election Day, 2004...I am very hopeful that...finally...the country is ready to pass our test. Tomorrow we will know.

I believe hope will prevail over fear. :patriot: GObama!

[Glorfindel]

11. Beautifully said, thank you, Mr. Pitt

I'm sure I'm not the only one today who is moved to tears by your eloquence.

[onlyadream]

13. Finally

Right after the last Presidential election, I started my countdown - marked by the age of my eldest daughter. She was 8 then, and I counted up to 12, thinking how it seemed so far away (as I couldn't picture my baby as a tween). Well, she's 12 and the election is here and I'm happy to say that my 12 year old is an Obama supporter too! (too bad she can't vote).

[Gregorian]

14. Eight years of darkness.

My god, I remember the first time you posted at Bartcop. We were emerging from a wreckage. Discovering just what damage had been done. Then one after another disaster was perpetrated upon us.

The one sentence you wrote had me looking outside my window at the rain, and the redwood trees beyond, wondering about those eyes that are gone. Do they really see us now. But the reflection back to those darkest days of discovery. Even before 9/11. How unfair to trick and lie.

The lost time. Just the time. Let alone the rest. It was more than 8 years. It was 8 soul years.

Regardless of how tomorrow turns out, we have something we didn't have before. Unity. Knowledge. We know who our enemy is, and what they're up to.

Thank you Will. You helped to open my eyes. I mean it. Thank you for being patient with those who knew less.

[Mad_Dem_X]

15. Beautiful. You have brought tears to my eyes.

I have faith in tomorrow.

[PatSeg]

16. Finally!

Almost there!!!

[Left Brain]

17. Thank you Will.

I felt it.

[live love laugh]

18. After 8 hellish years...tomorrow sounds good though I won't believe it 'til I see it. n/t

[madfloridian]

19. Well said.

I remember 2004 the day after. Only too clearly.

It will be different this time.

[WilliamPitt]

20. .

[DinahMoeHum]

21. Tomorrow comes!

Right now, I can't help but think of the reprise/finale to "Les Miserables"


Do you hear the people sing
Lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of a people
Who are climbing to the light
For the wretched of the earth
There is a flame that never dies
Even the darkest night will end
And the sun will rise!

They will live again in freedom
In the garden of the Lord
They will walk behind the plough-share
They will put away the sword
The chain will be broken
And all men will have their reward!

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?

Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that they bring
When tomorrow comes!


(c) Lyrics by: Alain Boublil (English lyrics: Herbert Kretzmer)
Based on Les Misérables by Victor Hugo


:kick::kick::kick:

[mikeytherat]

22. The sun'll come out tomorrow! Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be sun!

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow
There'll be sun!

Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clears away the cobwebs,
And the sorrow
'Til there's none!

When I'm stuck a day
That's gray,
And lonely,
I just stick out my chin
And Grin,
And Say,
Oh!

The sun'll come out
Tomorrow
So ya gotta hang on
'Til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I love ya Tomorrow!
You're always
A day
A way!

mikey_the_rat

[annabanana]

23. The "eyes" have it, Will.

And soon we will know what "it" is.

It isn't just they eyes of those we have so horribly failed. It's also the eyes who have looked to the Idea of America since the Experiment began. This is such a young Country. Will we ever claw our way out of this angry adolescence?

[WilliamPitt]

24. One way or the other.

Time will do it's thing no matter what.

[Autonomy]

27. 44444

Hey Will, the above post made 44444 posts on DU for you. Interesting. :)

[Duval]

29. Eloquent, as always. Thank you.n/t

[brer cat]

25. "change is nothing more than choice."

Well said!

[yasmina27]

26. Well written!

Thank you.

[lunatica]

28. In the last 8 years we came face to face with our Shadow side. We met...

the enemy and it was us. I find it amazing that we're a country that no outside force could ever hope to defeat or destroy, yet we've come damn near to it from within.

Maybe now that we know ourselves to be as bad as anyone with our wars and our torture we can start to grow up.

[Kurovski]

30. K&R. (nt)

[mzmolly]

31. .

K and R.

[bluesmail]

32. I doubt I can take a day more...

:thumbsup: Thanks for the inspiration. We need it. If McCain wins. If. He seems to have thrown the election, and yet...He does seem confident. Oh crap there I go again. being a scaredy cat.

[malaise]

33. Great post.

but I wish this was Wednesday morning.

[roamer65]

34. Sorry Will, but we have 77 more days until "tomorrow".

I will not rest easy until I see this war criminal leaving DC in the helicopter on January 20th. But I definitely understand your sentiments and tomorrow is the beginning of the end of our national nightmare.

[smitty]

35. I'm voting for Obama in spite of Pitt's maudlin crap.

[chknltl]

36. aaaaahhhh I can't take this kind of preasure!

[AikidoSoul]

37. Tomorrow

And if it's stolen again.... I'll see you all in D.C. in the massive demonstration

[stevedeshazer]

38. .

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[WillyT]

39. Excellent Will

Simply excellent.

:kick:

[JeffR]

40. Sums it up as well as anything I've read this strange & wondrous election year

Here's to - I was going to type "tomorrow" but it's just past midnight. Here's to today.

[Slippery_Hammer]

42. well said

[lonestarnot]

43. This post has been officially pied!

:evilgrin: :loveya:

[deaniac21]

45. It's been the longest 24 business hours I've ever lived through!

[VOX]

46. For 8 years, a GOOD day brought shame and embarrassment; the bad ones were horrific and unholy.

Beautiful piece, Will.

Thanks.