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...and get to the real work.
This will involve:
1. Defining just what it is you guys want your government and your nation to do over the next 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, ....
(Because, for better or for worse, the US is still the world's superpower, what you guys do will sizably determine what and how the rest of the world will do as well. I do hope that you and your leaders will seek to do wise things, in contrast to GW Bush and Gang, who deliberately went out of their way at each point to do exactly the most foolish [and even criminal] things that they could find to do!)
2. Working out, from day to day, just what it is that needs to be done to accomplish what you (and we in the rest of the world) want finally to achieve (in some measure at least) over the next 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, ....
(It's not impossible to do this kind of thing, in a very natural, human sort of way. I personally have great hopes that your President-to-be Barack Obama is one US leader who will genuinely try to get things right).
Doing the above will involve thinking and working in dimensions way beyond these simplistic labels like 'liberal'; 'progressive'; 'conservative', and the like (most of which only help to prevent people from thinking deeply enough about real issues at hand).
I notice that one reader came up with the interesting concatenation "conservative liberal". Use any darned label you choose, so long as you really work to get the things done that really need to get done. There are a huge number of very difficult things to do after these disastrous eight years of GW Bush and Gang.
Now, how to decide just what are the things to get done, how to use your resources and time most effectively - in such a way that you don't get swamped under?
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