Us has a calmer, more thoughtful, more celebratory aspect than those I've addressed so far. Us do. Us takes time, us makes time, for ceremony. Weddings, funerals, birth days, wakes, celebrations that a city has lasted 250 years, and every four years, in the United States of America, we inaugurate a new President, or re-inaugurate a sitting President. Yesterday we inaugurated Joe Biden after four years of Donald Trump.
May Biden have the will and the commitment to undo what Trump did.
But about us. Us were mostly solemn yesterday. For some inaugurations, us are almost silly. But yesterday was only two weeks after an insurrection seized the Capitol and wrought havoc inside it. I think us are still cleaning up and repairing what the insurrectionists did. Mostly us glossed over that. Us celebrated 232 years of a continuous government wholly invented on this continent, with the birth papers to prove it. Us celebrated a more or less peaceful, even more or less harmonious, transfer of power from one president to another.
Us watched in delight and awe as Amanda Gorman marked the occasion with a fierce poem.
Yea us! Viva us! Long live us!
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