{"id":15172,"date":"2024-11-27T15:12:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T20:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scoopnewsusa.com\/?p=15172"},"modified":"2024-11-27T15:12:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T20:12:54","slug":"how-to-hope-in-a-near-hopeless-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scoopnewsusa.com\/how-to-hope-in-a-near-hopeless-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How to hope in a near-hopeless time"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><body>\n<p>by Robert Reich<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been a few weeks, but it feels like an eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It feels like an eternity because of the immensity of the loss \u2014 not just the loss of the election but the seeming loss of America. Not just America, but the apparent loss of the world as we knew it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In reality, we lost by a relatively small number of votes, but in our winner-take-all system of government, that doesn\u2019t much matter. We lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few weeks in, and the magnitude of the loss may be hitting you differently than it did on the night of Nov. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been coming to me in the early morning, just as dawn is breaking and I\u2019m starting to awaken. It has been coming to me in the form of dread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What exactly do I dread? Trump, and all the anger he has exploited. Trump, and all the people he has manipulated. Trump, and all the power he will have to do atrocious things. Trump, and all the dreadful people he is surrounding himself with or is seeking to appoint. Trump, and his use of the military on hardworking people in my community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of you probably awaken as I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alternatively, some of you are using coping mechanisms \u2014 not reading the paper or listening to the news, or giving up on politics, or relying on music or poetry or the beauty of nature to blot out what is occurring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However you might be coping with the loss and the shock, it\u2019s very important that you know what they\u2019re trying to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What they want most is to take away our hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If they can make us hopeless, they win everything. If they can abscond with our hope, we will stop fighting for a more just society, stop defending those who are most vulnerable to them, stop protecting what\u2019s left of our democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If they can destroy our hope, we won\u2019t join together to try to stop them. They will win everything. They will get it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">**********<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thank you for reading an excerpt of Robert Reich\u2019s article on scoopusamedia.com. To read more of the article, \u201cHow to hope in a near-hopeless time,\u201d please subscribe to Scoop USA Media. Print subscriptions are $75.00 and online subscriptions (Print, Digital and Vizion) are $90. (52 weeks\/1 year)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Robert Reich It\u2019s been a few weeks, but it feels like an eternity. It feels like an eternity because of the immensity of the loss \u2014 not just the loss of the election but the seeming loss of America. Not just America, but the apparent loss of the world as we knew it. 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