{"id":21248,"date":"2019-12-27T06:37:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T14:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=21248"},"modified":"2019-12-27T06:37:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T14:37:21","slug":"reasons-for-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=21248","title":{"rendered":"Reasons for Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I offer some insights brazenly stolen from a list found in <em>The Nation,<\/em> a useful reminder that there are points of hope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135338-copy.jpg?resize=890%2C594&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135338-copy.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135338-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135338-copy.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135338-copy.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135338-copy.jpg?resize=560%2C373&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135338-copy.jpg?resize=80%2C53&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135338-copy.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><figcaption>Optimistic we can keep the ball rolling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Good stuff that happened this year: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong> Legal Victories for the Activists Fighting for Families on the Border<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Continued Progressive Investment in the Work of Stacey Abrams<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The Supreme Court Saves the Census<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135302-copy.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135302-copy-scaled.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135302-copy-scaled.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135302-copy-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135302-copy-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135302-copy-scaled.jpg?resize=1365%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1365w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135302-copy-scaled.jpg?resize=560%2C840&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135302-copy-scaled.jpg?resize=80%2C120&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135302-copy-scaled.jpg?w=1707&amp;ssl=1 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption>Optimistic we&#8217;ll find the right role models<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Louisiana Reelects a Democratic Governor<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Democrats Take Control in Virginia<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>We Finally Get Closer to Passing the Equal Rights Amendment<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The 1619 Project<\/strong> (a wide-ranging editorial package including essays, images, and reported stories, and a radical challenge to the idea that \u201cslavery was a long time ago\u201d; it firmly roots the United States\u2019 societal problems and inequalities in its treatment of black people.&nbsp;)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135343-copy-2.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135343-copy-2.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135343-copy-2.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135343-copy-2.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135343-copy-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135343-copy-2.jpg?resize=560%2C840&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135343-copy-2.jpg?resize=80%2C120&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135343-copy-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption>Optimistic we&#8217;ll stand our ground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The Continuation of the Demographic Revolution<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Pelosi Retakes the Speaker\u2019s Gavel<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Trump Is Impeached<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135341-copy.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135341-copy.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135341-copy.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135341-copy.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135341-copy.jpg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135341-copy.jpg?resize=560%2C840&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135341-copy.jpg?resize=80%2C120&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135341-copy.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption>Optimistic we can look beyond ourselves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To read details about these hopeful signals, go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/best-progressive-stories-2019\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"688\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135299-copy.jpg?resize=688%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135299-copy.jpg?resize=688%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 688w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135299-copy.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135299-copy.jpg?resize=768%2C1142&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135299-copy.jpg?resize=1033%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1033w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135299-copy.jpg?resize=560%2C833&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135299-copy.jpg?resize=80%2C119&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135299-copy.jpg?w=1210&amp;ssl=1 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><figcaption>Optimistic we&#8217;ll see beyond black&amp;white<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Or just read or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qWrsEtqPFNw&amp;feature=emb_logo\">listen<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amandascgorman.com\/home.html\">Amanda Gorman<\/a>, who was chosen the National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017. I&#8217;m optimistic: the kids will save us. (And in honor of her being from L.A., today&#8217;s photographs were taken there, at <em>The Broad,<\/em> with an eye on optimism&#8230;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135335-copy.jpg?resize=890%2C594&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135335-copy.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135335-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135335-copy.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135335-copy.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135335-copy.jpg?resize=560%2C373&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135335-copy.jpg?resize=80%2C53&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135335-copy.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><figcaption>Optimistic we can preserve Little Red Riding Hoods&#8217;s resistance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In This Place (An American Lyric)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.splitthisrock.org\/poetry-database\/search\/search&amp;poem_author_text-exact=Amanda%20Gorman\">Amanda Gorman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8212; An original poem written for the inaugural reading of Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith at the Library of Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">There\u2019s a poem in this place\u2014<br>in the footfalls in the halls<br>in the quiet beat of the seats.<br>It is here, at the curtain of day,<br>where America writes a lyric<br>you must whisper to say.<br><br>There\u2019s a poem in this place\u2014<br>in the heavy grace,<br>the lined face of this noble building,<br>collections burned and reborn twice.<br><br>There\u2019s a poem in Boston\u2019s Copley Square<br>where protest chants<br>tear through the air<br>like sheets of rain,<br>where love of the many<br>swallows hatred of the few.<br><br>There\u2019s a poem in Charlottesville<br>where tiki torches string a ring of flame<br>tight round the wrist of night<br>where men so white they gleam blue\u2014<br>seem like statues<br>where men heap that long wax burning<br>ever higher<br>where Heather Heyer<br>blooms forever in a meadow of resistance.<br><br>There\u2019s a poem in the great sleeping giant<br>of Lake Michigan, defiantly raising<br>its big blue head to Milwaukee and Chicago\u2014<br>a poem begun long ago, blazed into frozen soil,<br>strutting upward and aglow.<br><br>There\u2019s a poem in Florida, in East Texas<br>where streets swell into a nexus<br>of rivers, cows afloat like mottled buoys in the brown,<br>where courage is now so common<br>that 23-year-old Jesus Contreras rescues people from floodwaters.<br><br>There\u2019s a poem in Los Angeles<br>yawning wide as the Pacific tide<br>where a single mother swelters<br>in a windowless classroom, teaching<br>black and brown students in Watts<br>to spell out their thoughts<br>so her daughter might write<br>this poem for you.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>There&#8217;s a lyric in California<br>where thousands of students march for blocks,<br>undocumented and unafraid;<br>where my friend Rosa finds the power to blossom<br>in deadlock, her spirit the bedrock of her community.<br>She knows hope is like a stubborn<br>ship gripping a dock,<br>a truth: that you can\u2019t stop a dreamer<br>or knock down a dream.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>How could this not be her city<br>su naci\u00f3n<br>our country<br>our America,<br>our American lyric to write\u2014<br>a poem by the people, the poor,<br>the Protestant, the Muslim, the Jew,<br>the native, the immigrant,<br>the black, the brown, the blind, the brave,<br>the undocumented and undeterred,<br>the woman, the man, the nonbinary,<br>the white, the trans,<br>the ally to all of the above<br>and more?<br><br>Tyrants fear the poet.<br>Now that we know it<br>we can\u2019t blow it.<br>We owe it<br>to show it<br>not slow it<br>although it<br>hurts to sew it<br>when the world<br>skirts below it.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>Hope\u2014<br>we must bestow it<br>like a wick in the poet<br>so it can grow, lit,<br>bringing with it<br>stories to rewrite\u2014<br>the story of a Texas city depleted but not defeated<br>a history written that need not be repeated<br>a nation composed but not yet completed.<br><br>There\u2019s a poem in this place\u2014<br>a poem in America<br>a poet in every American<br>who rewrites this nation, who tells<br>a story worthy of being told on this minnow of an earth<br>to breathe hope into a palimpsest of time\u2014<br>a poet in every American<br>who sees that our poem penned<br>doesn\u2019t mean our poem\u2019s end.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><br>There\u2019s a place where this poem dwells\u2014<br>it is&nbsp;<em>here<\/em>, it is&nbsp;<em>now<\/em>, in the yellow song of dawn\u2019s bell<br>where we write an American lyric<br>we are just beginning to tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135313-copy.jpg?resize=890%2C594&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135313-copy.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135313-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135313-copy.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135313-copy.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135313-copy.jpg?resize=560%2C373&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135313-copy.jpg?resize=80%2C53&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135313-copy.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><figcaption>Optimistic we can stretch our sense of proportion beyond the electoral college&#8230;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy someone else&#8217;s perpetual optimism&#8230;   I&#8217;m signing off for a week&#8217;s break. See you in January after I&#8217;ve restocked the archives!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135358-copy.jpg?resize=890%2C594&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135358-copy.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135358-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135358-copy.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135358-copy.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135358-copy.jpg?resize=560%2C373&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135358-copy.jpg?resize=80%2C53&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.heuermontage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/P1135358-copy.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><figcaption>Optimistic I&#8217;ll catch footage in some unexpected places&#8230; <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"You Don\u2019t Know What Love Is\" width=\"890\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EzIXdc0Kosw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rush Hour\" width=\"890\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9P_Z8hZxAag?list=OLAK5uy_lPDW46JeiR6PeIKz1lxtuC63k4c0b21h0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I offer some insights brazenly stolen from a list found in The Nation, a useful reminder that there are points of hope. 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