Let’s be optimistic

Yesterday Donald Trump was elected president of the United States. This has been a divisive election characterized by the worst two candidates ever presented to the American voters. A Trump victory is not a vote for hatred or misogyny or racism or any other of the flaws attributed to him. Trump’s victory is a plea for change. A cry for help. Our country is broke and broken. We can not afford to continue on our current path. A presidency is larger than the president. So rather than prognosticate doom, let’s be optimistic. Let’s focus on what can be built, not on what might be destroyed. For the first time ever we’ll have a president who is not an insider and not beholden to special interests. Maybe, for once, the American people will come first.