[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.]
Welcome to the lovely American experience of winning an election and receiving no power with it—not yet. A completely necessary interlude, yes, but in the meantime problems of screaming urgency get the same answer we all do: wait.
Citizens should get very used to that answer and mentality, it will be years, if ever, before some of us see dreams of America that should be become reality. Just because Executive power has been vastly inflated in the last 80 years does not mean the great Judicial and Legislative turf granted in the American system has been fully obviated, not hardly. Coupled with a rankly corporate journalism corps great forces are easily assembled to easily crush liberal enterprises, I’ve watched it happen many times.
