Kucinich Reloaded



"I told Kucinich I believed in the ability of individuals to make a difference, yes, but that I had grown weary of the beautiful-loser syndrome in which progressives seemed locked.

It was then that Kucinich began scolding me.

He admonished my cynicism, saying I shouldn't go there: 'When you lose hope, that becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that can stop us from achieving that which may be just a little out of reach right now.”"

He referred to hope as an "imminent reality" -- "a reality that is waiting to be called forth." Indeed, one could say we called forth the right to vote for people who were not property owners, he said. We called forth the Emancipation Proclamation. We called forth the right of women to vote and the ability of young people to participate in the political process.

"My approach," he said simply, "is to try to draw the reality a little closer." Later, inside the theater, the congressman said it another way. Quoting Percy Bysshe Shelley from Prometheus Unbound, he spoke of "hope creating from its own wreck the thing that it contemplates." read it all
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