A New Day A New Way

A blue tsunami has washed over the land and The Dark Lord has been vanquished! His sniveling attack dogs have fled with their tails between their legs. These hatred-spewing mongrels have been swept from power and now lie prostrate before their Lord while they whimper and beg for forgiveness. Awakening from a deep and disturbing slumber, people everywhere now find that the miasma of evil has lifted from the land to reveal a brilliant rising sun that brings with it the promise of a new day. The blackness of evil and hatred is never sustainable and like the black holes of the cosmos has imploded upon itself. The Lord’s followers have crawled under every rock and into every cave they can find; rats, cockroaches and spiders are their new constituents. Make no mistake, the poison that the Dark Lord has been spewing for all these years will not disappear overnight. His followers, while much diminished, are still strong and determined and will not give up easily. Their unique brand of hatred is insatiable but slowly it will begin to fall on deaf ears. The Dark Lord will diminish in size as the hatred that feeds him diminishes too until he is reduced to a puddle of smoldering cinders like the Wicked Witch of the West.

For the time being the Good Guys have won. They ride in on their white horses flying rainbow banners while trumpeters blow a joyous fanfare and for the first time in what seems like an eternity we can all finally exhale. The breaths we now take in fill our lungs with hope. A future that so recently looked hopeless is now brimming with possibilities. What once seemed unfathomable has miraculously come to pass. It’s possible to disagree with your opponents and win without vilifying them and spewing hatred. Love will conquer hate, I will take that belief to my grave.

The road before us is a long one, there will be twists and turns, unforeseeable hazards and dead ends. There’s much work to be done but for once the direction is clear: forward, away from the darkness and towards the light. Together with our shoulders to the wheel we work for a brighter future for us all. So begins the task.