The hope we and this nation had for change we could believe in, and which we still hope will not die, has been diminished by the reality of petty politics, with the "Party of No" and its raucous Teabagger mutation blocking social change for America's improvement.
We really want to be able to write columns about Americans who take care of each other, about leaders who concentrate upon fixing the social problems. But we know that's only an ethereal ideal. So, we'll just have to hope that the waters of social justice wear down, however slowly, the jagged rocks of haughty resistance.
[Dr. Walter Brasch is an award-winning social issues columnist, former newspaper investigative reporter and editor, and journalism professor. His latest book is Sinking the Ship of State: The Presidency of George W. Bush . Rosemary Brasch is a former secretary, Red Cross national disaster family services specialist, labor activist, and university instructor of labor studies.]
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