I was watching the Today Show this morning before I went to work, and Matt Lauer was talking about how Obama and his family will meet with the Bushes (Bush's? Bushi?) and Cheneys for coffee this morning before the inauguration. He then mentioned "the peaceful transfer of power," and it made me think just how big today is, and just how much we take it for granted.
For millennia, the only way people got power from their predecessor was out of their cold, dead hands. And if that wasn't after a long and bloody conflict, you could consider yourself lucky. Even today, depending on where you are in the world, this may be the case.
So yeah, we complain about our government not getting things done, and being too conservative and whatever else. But when you get down to it, in the grand scope of things, we're able to elect the guy we want and have him take power in (arguably) the most powerful seat in the nation, if not the world, just by voting for him. No fighting. No killing. Just letting the system work--and it actually did.
That's pretty cool.
That is all.
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