What this election says to me is that we are moving closer to something. That something is a world in which people are no longer evaluated by the color of their skin, the partner of their evenings, the impediments of biological accident. It is instead a world in which people are valued for what gives them joy each morning when they wake. It is a world in which we are not so inundated with the struggle to survive that we cannot reach out a hand to another who is also struggling. We used to live in such a world. A world where identification of difference meant the difference between life and death. A world in which political alliances based on marriage also were matters of life and death. But that world is fading away. Its customs are anachronisms. We need not live that way any longer. What we do need to understand is the responsibility we have to those who are still forced to do so. Those who do not yet have the luxuries that we enjoy. Those who still live in that older world. That more violent world. We can move beyond it. And we can bring others with us. Someday we will look back at the mountains we have moved and be pleased. Today, I have hope.
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