No, there is no plan.

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5. Yes, that's the tragic nutshell.

Now it's up to people of good character to find ways to instill hope and inspire action.

Those of bad character have successfully immobilized far too many for far too long by feeding the sense of hopelessness, cynicism, and powerlessness that serves them.

It will ultimately be a virtuous and growing feedback loop of hope and action that creates the level of powerful citizen engagement needed to, not just turn the tide, but to enact a new, new deal for the American people.

And citizen engagement means a lot more than voting. It means citizen lobbying. It means ordinary people pushing their electeds to unite in opposition and to work their asses off to build political will for the things they have taken off the table as "impossible" for way, way too long. Things like universal health care and a completely revamped tax system that calls on those who benefit the most from the public/private thing we call the American economy to lift up the workers that make their profits possible and guarantee all the basic income needed for human dignity.