While this article is, on the surface, about the gloom-and-doom shrouding Americans today, within it I see glimmers of hope. The sentiments offered up by people interviewed in places as varied as Denver, Kansas City, and Boston, seem to indicate that maybe we're approaching a sea change. On the whole, people seem sad as hell and, hopefully, they aren't going to take it anymore.

 

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There wasn't as much noise in the press as you/I would have expected when the Supreme Court began chipping away at Roe v. Wade earlier this year, but you might argue that that's because abortion is a women's issue or a religious issue or whatever. Basically, it's something I may never have to worry about, so why should I care, right? But what happens when it's a "human issue"? The Supreme Court is scaring the hell out of me because they're working on dismantling Brown v. the Board of Education! They handed down a ruling yesterday that effectively says, "Segregation. Not that bad in retrospect." What?? This is an issue that affects all of us, but it's not on the front page of the NYTimes website, now is it? I was scanning headlines and I happened to see an Op-Ed piece that stopped me dead: "Editorial: Resegregation Now". This was the first I'd heard of the issue and I thought, "What yahoo is talking about resegregation apropos of nothing??" I had to search the NYTimes website, using "Supreme Court" and "Seattle" as my search terms just to dig up an AP article from today. And is there anything on the Seattle Times webpage about it? Nope. Am I crazy for thinking this should be bigger news?