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The hoarding of wealth, as opposed to acquiring the fruits of one''s labor should never be confused. The driving force of upperclass distinction has historically been maintained by this principle. Exported from the Old World, where debtor prisons were common due to the suppression of wages and opportunity inflicted upon the poor, it has continued here in the New World in the guise of a "corporate upperclass."

However, the populistic call for “revolution” by Bernie Sanders and supporters during the primary races was premature. Then and now, it is evolution, rather than revolution that can fix our self-governing and cultural woes.

History has taught us the price the poor pay during disruptive change. No one wants a slow slog for economic or social justice, but we do want to proceed in change with prudence, reason, insight and unexaggerated knowing. Seeing poverty and being poverty is not the same. Concept does not equal living experience, nor does voluntary, short-term experimental poverty. Flying without a family or trust fund parachute is the "real" of realism.

With Donald Trump poised to assume the Oval Office, things are now genuinely dire. The call to remake our capitalistic economy, as opposed to realigning and effectively regulating it,  must be supplanted by  the battle for our democracy, threatened by Trumpocracy swelling into the White House by every administration appointment.

This is exactly why this presidential election with its down ballot candidates was so important. We can''t always get exactly what we want, but we can act for the good of the whole, especially the truly downtrodden – those hopelessly locked into generational poverty, social oppression, addiction, mental illness, shortened life expectancy, and non-regard except for private prison profit.

Free education, single-payer health insurance, taking down Wall Street. How about a good meal, books, clean water, a place to call home, dignity. At this point, it is not about the haves and the have less, it''s about the have nothings.

The expected dog fight over the DNC chairmanship is so predictable. Flailing ego’s, primarily male, going for the party crown to save it from itself, from its “poor messaging” and inability to reach white middle class America. Seriously! In individual white middle class America’s own words, “He’s just like me.” What can you do with that?

What we can do and should do is fight for them—the aforementioned downtrodden, impoverished, oppressed, mentally ill, and sufferers of neglect. They don''t need our patronizing. They don’t need to be collateral damage in our party infighting. Want to make the party relevant? Drop the squabbling blindly fed by personal ambition.  Lead by humility, empathy and compassion, not intellectual detachment and self-importance.

Factually, the call for a "revolution" characterizing the Democratic Party presidential campaign was inaccurate and misplaced. The seminal American revolution of 1776—rising from the Declaration of Independence and further advanced by the U.S. Constitution of 1788; tested by the Civil War of 1861 and redressed by ongoing Civil Rights movements through Reconstruction into the 1960‘s—is a continuum that Senator Sanders did not start anew.

What would have been new in ways that can’t even be calculatied would have been electing the first woman president in our history. Shattering that glass ceiling would have carried forth resounding echoes far into our country’s future. Consciousness was opening the door, until the patriarchy on both sides of the political divide closed it.

It is a time here for Critical Evolution not revolution, when the Feminine Principle brings necessary balance to the affairs of humankind. Perhaps, this is still in the offing. Hope springs eternal.