Where do we go from here?

An early Martin Luther King Day present for you folks back in America:

... And I must confess, my friends, that the road ahead will not always be smooth. There will still be rocky places of frustration and meandering points of bewilderment. There will be inevitable setbacks here and there. And there will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair. Our dreams will sometimes be shattered and our ethereal hopes blasted. We may again, with tear-drenched eyes, have to stand before the bier of some courageous civil rights worker whose life will be snuffed out by the dastardly acts of bloodthirsty mobs. But difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future. ...

   -Martin Luther King Jr. "Where Do We Go From Here?" (1967)

And in spite of recent political events and all the campaign promises as yet unfulfilled, I say again; "Yes, we can."

(and, moreover, we must. the alternative is unacceptable. Jut imagining such an impoverished, selfish America breaks my heart.)