That land of unfulfilled expectations

Americans are not exempt by special dispensation from the mines that litter the field of social transformation across the world, nor endowed with any special talent for their avoidance or deactivation. A slow, painful phase of correction and readjustment from multiple ills is inevitable.

But let me end, as I began, on a note of euphoria. It is crucial that we seize upon this moment as a self-sustained transformative event in itself and for itself, one that is placed beyond adumbrations and cannot be affected by eventualities no matter what. The citizens of this nation space which was deemed a lost global cause can claim that they have not merely glimpsed, but set their feet upon the mountaintop.

Who was it now that once quipped, "There is always something new out of Africa"? Julius Caesar, perhaps? That attribution seems as good as any. Americans will shortly have cause to agree with him, whoever it was. A cynical quip has turned transcendentally prescient two millennia after it was supposedly uttered. Were he alive today, our Julius Caesar would have bestowed the laurel of astonishment on that land of broken promises and unfulfilled expectations. By Jupiter! Something new and rare out of America.