"SOMETIMES DECADES HAPPEN IN WEEKS"

Lenin: “Sometimes nothing happens in decades, and sometimes decades happen in weeks.”

Revolutionary: Being or bringing about a big or important change.

What does a revolutionary change look like? Carl Quintanilla of CNBC reported that a week ago, those on a phone call of more than 400 people from Bank of America’s Federal Government Relations Team believed that a Trump victory was a “foregone conclusion.” Now that conviction is gone. “There’s been a palpable sentiment reversal.”

If "revolutionary" is defined as "Being or bringing about a big or important change," we are in a revolutionary situation.

What is happening now has never happened before in American political history. I worked in the Obama campaign beginning in 2007, and what I experienced then - which felt like nothing before - is not close to what is going on now.

This enthusiasm would not have been available to just any Democratic candidate.

Kamala Harris is the perfect candidate for this moment. She’s like no candidate before. In 2020, the idea of Harris was more appealing than the candidate. Now, the candidate matches or exceeds the concept. She ignites the Democratic coalition in a way that many of those who were floated to replace Biden could not.

On top of the outreach, Harris has improved as a candidate. Her three and a half years traveling the world, meeting those leaders and giving speeches about important issues, all the meetings and briefings in the White House Situation Room, the many cabinet meetings, have made her a better candidate. A Prepared Candidate.

AOC warned the week before Biden withdrew that those pushing him out also wanted to push out VP Harris. That didn't happen, because the Democratic base - Us! - rose up and said No!

We made sure it would be Kamala, and in the past week, the elites are responding to us. Each of them could say what 19th century French politician Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin once said: "There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader."

I really believe this is "the American Spring." Unlike The Arab Spring, or the "democratic revolutions" at the outset of the French and Russian Revolutions - which were overthrown by the "revolutionaries" who couldn't deliver anything but a new tyranny - we have a good chance of success because there is a 100 day time limit. That’s not enough time for the "professionals" to screw up and abort things.

This is a bottom-up movement.

We have Gen Z creators making memes that are playing to young people and activating them.

On Sunday night, 45,000 black women came together and created a movement. The next night, 45,000 black men followed their example, followed each night after by Asian Americans, LGBTQ American, Latino Americans, White American Women.

Next Monday White Dudes for Kamala is meeting, and on Tuesday Women for Harris will come into existence.

Those zoom meetings are our version of the "peoples' assemblies" that brought forth the democratic revolutions in 1789 and 1917 and 2011.

Over 100,000 people have signed up as volunteers to work in the election. Most of them have never done such a thing before.

My politics have remained what they began as 60 years ago: I am a "participatory democracy radical." I think we are in the midst of what I've been hoping for all of those 60 years.

What we have to do to make this happen is PARTICIPATE.

If we win in November, then this is our chance to finally make "We hold these truths to be self-evident" the American Reality.

We can do this. “We aren’t going back!”

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