re: The Great Endarkening, I wrote:

Typical! They put us in charge at the precise moment it all really starts to come unglued.

But, obviously, the other thing is that it's this very "ungluing" that unsticks the door enough for a Presidential first (I would argue black or female) to (maybe) walk through. A strong and prosperous America as we have previously understood those things to mean (strong, prosperous, America) would have neither needed nor allowed now evoked (invoked?) the kind of change a first black or female president represents.