IS THERE A LIGHT AT THE END OF TUNNEL? MY TAKE ON THE IMPACT OF THE WISCONSIN RECALL

I have always been a very optimistic person but lately it seems as though there is little to be optimistic about.  The failure of the recall vote in Wisconsin has dark implications for us as a country.  Here is a man who has outright lied to his people and may be indicted for allegedly criminal acts but can survive a recall election.  This shows the power of money and greed in this country and I suspect it means very dark days ahead for us as a country.
29 million dollars were spent by the Walker campaign in this race and 16 million was spent by outside interests .  On the Democratic side the Barrett Campaign spent 3 million and outside interests spent 6 million.  So money won the election.  This is sad news for the country when the voice of the people counts for less than the money spent by big super pacs.  Citizens United will be the death of Democracy.
Also when will the Department of Justice take its mission and responsibility seriously and investigate the illegal robo calls that were used to discourage voters by telling them that if they signed the recall petition they did not need to vote.  Voter suppression needs to be stopped in its tracks, but that is a subject for another day.
This morning in a daily devotional that I receive the writer, Quinn Caldwell, talked about an experience he had in Manhattan on September 11, 2001 when a group of theological students gathered to help if they could and were turned away.  They began to sing what he called a very "lame hymn" for adults to be singing This Little Light of Mine and people gathered and held up cell phones and the light from them shone and it seemed like this was a song that people needed to hear at that time.  So maybe we should be looking for a very dim light at the end of the tunnel that we are in to give us hope and hope that it isn't a train rushing at us to destroy us.