Marc Elias: CNN is hopelessly broken.

[MadameButterfly]

50. Sometimes they do. Velvet Revolution, for example

That doesn't mean I'm not plenty worried about what we have to go through before things turn around, and I'm well aware the other side has a lot of guns.

I dream of people learning their lesson and getting out of this mess without too much pain. I hope if there is destruction, suffering, and even civil war that we come out of it with a society more committed to positive change. The place I just can't go is the hopelessness of a permanent dictatorship and irreversible environmental damage.