Who won?

We won! And we are everyone. We are the ones who are sick and tired of "special interests." We are the immigrants and all those around the world who wish they were. We are the workers and we are the honest owners. An ideal that we all cherish won. We got so tired of the inequities that were becoming ingrained. Special treatment and inside deals lost. Fairness won.

Isn't fairness the magic of America? Isn't fairness the real bedrock that makes the American Dream possible? Class systems and cast systems have no place here. The great middle rules here. The only thing that can sustain the vast middle is the belief that fairness will out. It is what the rule of law is all about. It is a person stripped of privilege standing no better or worse than anyone else. Take away your awards, your accolades, your standing in your profession or lack there of. Rest assured when no one can see or even pays attention that this ideal will be foremost and always preeminent.

We have found our grounding again. No more K street project. No more legacy entitlement. Fairness before all is why we have succeeded and it is what makes us the place everyone wants to be like. How do we do it? What is this wonderful collective sensibility that's ingrained in us that allows us to see when things just don't feel right. It's like a group sense. It is an unease. There are those that say we want more than anything to be liked. I think this is wrong. I think what we want more than anything is that we like ourselves. And I think we were not too happy with us and we needed a righting. Its a sense of unease that permeates our being, one that sees beyond or through superficially good news and strong indicators. When all the numbers are pointing positive and all the feelings are going in the other direction, it seems that we know things just aren't right and those things always seems to be that things are beginning to lose site of their mooring. It's fairness stupid. That is the magnet and the promise of America.