The Third Day After "The Rip Tide" (or when the most diverse possible coalition of Americans stood up and said ENOUGH!)

Maya Angelou wrote on Facebook today:  "I was grateful to see President Obama’s victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!"

I agree deeply and completely. In my mind this election turned out to be about long neglected and demonized social issues, not business and the economy.  It turned out that we who voted for Obama were the rip-tide that swept away the oppressive power base of the extreme right wing.  

Rip Tide?  You don't see a rip tide until it is too late.  One thinks they are in calm safe waters until the strong undercurrent of the rip tide drags one out to sea.  That is what happened to the GOP. The beauty is that WE never knew how strong and united a coalition that we were.  Against all hope (if you watched the polls and pundits) we voted anyway, encouraged voters being suppressed to "hold the line" through Twitter and Facebook and stood up for all of us.  Divergent yet United.  And until the Night of Novemeber 6, 2012 never realizing how many of us there were.  I am in total awe.