becoming more and more bloody, we have to find more and more people that are willing to entertain our values. when when solutions, a common community. we have seen ample evidence, ever since the end of world war two that whenever we fight on at their own turf, we can defeat the strong. particularly if the week did not represent a nation state. . you could have quit. you could have given up. you and ginger started out in the civil rights movement and spent half the 1980 s being derided as a closet conservative who didn t care about that. but you didn t give up. and you now have evidence that what you did works. you have the compliments that people you worked with for years and policies you advocated have been embraced by our new president and he is succeeding and doing a good job with them. you have the sure knowledge that as long as people are people, we will need a new generation to pick up the torch you carried so nobodyably. i would never have become president without you