History and identify people who, looking at america as flawed as it was back in the past, and found ways to make us better. i think it is up to this generation to commit itself again, as others have done, to come up with ways in which we perfect our union. there are structural issues we need to deal with, but it is not as if this is the first time this nation has faced these kinds of problems. eric, this is gene robinson. congratulations on the book. so is that the solution, though? is that the plan, that we go back to the future? you remember, you know what the campaign, the crusade to achieve voting rights in the 50s and 60s entailed. it involved people power. it involved, you know, people in the streets. selma to montgomery. it was a time of great turmoil,