We're going to get there.

It’s going to take time and patience, a fair share of angst and a lot of hope – a commitment to our ideals, and the courage of our convictions.

But we are going to get there.

It’s happening, and it’s spreading. It’s letters to editors, it’s phone calls to politicians. It’s being transmitted by phone and text; it’s being blogged about, bragged about, passed around and passed on. It’s word of mouth, word of head, word of heart. It’s action and reaction – and it won’t be stopped.

There is a great awakening in this nation. People who have been lulled to sleep by the monotonous repetition of half-truths are seeing the light. People who have been fooled by the complicity of a lazy media are opening their eyes.

The lunatic fringe, compelled by self-imposed ignorance, are exposing themselves for who they are – puppets of a party whose goals are now transparent. The hate-mongers, driven by bigotry, are losing the financial support that once gave them a voice. The fear merchants are going out of business, bereft of consumers now wary of their wares.

Labor unions are speaking up for the true core of our nation, the workers. Grassroots organizations are speaking out for the true government of our nation, the People. Ordinary citizens who have had enough are weighing in – and they will not be out-shouted, out-smarted, or out-numbered. They will be not only heard, but heeded; they will be not only listened to, but understood.

Those who voted for change will not be content to ask for it, but will demand it. Those who voted for a new day will not settle for old ways.

The sense of community is growing stronger; the concept of divide-and-conquer will not be tolerated, nor endured. Our place as a nation will be recaptured; our standing as a global neighbor will be re-evaluated, redefined, reclaimed.

This is no longer a matter of one man in the White House, one party in power, one topic to be debated, one subject to be discussed. This is about one voice of a People saying, “No more, I have had enough.”

We are going to get there – not because it’s our time to choose, our moment to speak, our hour to be heard – but because it is what is right, what is just, what is fair.

We are going to get there. Don’t abandon courage; your neighbor has your back. Don’t give up hope; your fellow citizen will spur you on and see you through. Don’t give up the dream; your inner self will give you strength, and show you the way to the reality that is only limited by what you have been told you should not, cannot dare imagine. But imagine it – if you will.

We are going to get there. We will not be dismissed, distracted, deterred. We will not be mis-informed, mis-appropriated, or misled. We will not be cajoled, compromised nor placated. No, we won’t be – never again.

We are going to get there. We have lost a flag-bearer, but not the cause which his standard symbolized. We have lost a man who was committed, but not our sense of honour in the concept of commitment. We have lost a leader – but his followers endure.

We are going to get there. We will arrive at our destination, perhaps scarred and battle-weary, a little worse for wear.

But we are going to get there. And one who has passed will rejoice, and welcome us all home – never having doubted for a moment that we would end up where we were meant to be all along.

We are going to get there. He believed it. If you don’t, or can’t or WON’T, you’re going to miss out on one hell of finish-line party.

BYOB. A reminder of the euphoria that comes with dreams realized will be provided by the host.