If That Comes To Pass

If we can't make it work now, if we can't make it work here, then it won't work anywhere ever.

And if that is the case (if we can't make it work) then history will look back in harsh judgement at our being so sure of our manifest destiny and the absolute purity of our self-evident truths -- so full of certainty but so unable to make it so.

And if it does (if history looks back on our failure), it will perhaps conclude that we were just as blind as those fallen communists whose demise we hold so dear today.

And if that comes to pass (if we can't make it work here and now and if history holds us in contempt), the future will be so grim that I cannot imagine. And I don't think I want to. And I envy my grandparents who won't have to.

If that comes to pass.

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