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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">A message of hope<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Rabbi Arthur Waskow <office@theshalomcenter.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 13, 2017 5:51 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ms. Ann Rennacker<br>
<b>Subject:</b> “Democracy IS coming to the U.S.A.” (Leonard Cohen)</font>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>“<span style="color:#800000"><span style="background-color:#ffff00">Democracy IS coming to the U.S.A.” (Leonard Cohen)</span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Leonard Cohen, a serious unconventional Jew, would have delighted that the people of Alabama created a Hanukkah miracle. Listen to his song – it’s determined, devoted, but not simplistic and not frothy. </strong><strong>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px">Please join me on this journey by first listening and watching here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU-RuR-qO4Y&feature=youtu.be></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px"> I have included the words below to make sure you can hear them all. Please do actually watch and listen to Leonard Cohen sing them. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px">After that, we will look honestly at what we are facing now.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px">It's coming through a hole in the air,<br>
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.<br>
It's coming from the feel<br>
that this ain't exactly real,<br>
or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.<br>
>From the wars against disorder,<br>
from the sirens night and day,<br>
from the fires of the homeless,<br>
from the ashes of the gay:<br>
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px">It's coming through a crack in the wall;<br>
on a visionary flood of alcohol;<br>
from the staggering account<br>
of the Sermon on the Mount<br>
which I don't pretend to understand at all.<br>
It's coming from the silence<br>
on the dock of the bay,<br>
from the brave, the bold, the battered<br>
heart of Chevrolet:<br>
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.<br>
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It's coming from the sorrow in the street,<br>
the holy places where the races meet;<br>
from the homicidal bitchin'<br>
that goes down in every kitchen<br>
to determine who will serve and who will eat.<br>
>From the wells of disappointment<br>
where the women kneel to pray<br>
for the grace of God in the desert here<br>
and the desert far away:<br>
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.<br>
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Sail on, sail on<br>
O mighty Ship of State!<br>
To the Shores of Need<br>
Past the Reefs of Greed<br>
Through the Squalls of Hate<br>
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on.<br>
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It's coming to America first,<br>
the cradle of the best and of the worst.<br>
It's here they got the range<br>
and the machinery for change<br>
and it's here they got the spiritual thirst.<br>
It's here the family's broken<br>
and it's here the lonely say<br>
that the heart has got to open<br>
in a fundamental way:<br>
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.<br>
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It's coming from the women and the men.<br>
O baby, we'll be making love again.<br>
We'll be going down so deep<br>
the river's going to weep,<br>
and the mountain's going to shout Amen!<br>
It's coming like the tidal flood<br>
beneath the lunar sway,<br>
imperial, mysterious,<br>
in amorous array:<br>
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.<br>
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Sail on, sail on ...<br>
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I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean<br>
I love the country but I can't stand the scene.<br>
And I'm neither left or right<br>
I'm just staying home tonight,<br>
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.<br>
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags<br>
that Time cannot decay,<br>
I'm junk but I'm still holding up<br>
this little wild bouquet:<br>
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px">*** **** **** **** ***</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px">NOW -- Leet’s syop this abomination of a Tax Deform. McConnell will probably try to jam it through befpre Senatpr-elect Jones can be seated and other Senatirs change their minds. Let’s flood Senatirs Collins, McCain, Flake,
Heller wth phone calls. And office visits. And sit-ins.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px">Shalom -- Arthur</span></p>
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