America’s Lost Political Heart

Bren Kelly
7 min readJun 28, 2024

What Was Absent in the Trump-Biden Debate Revealed to Be Democracy

The blown-out heart in the wastefield of the first debate [AI generated image of the results of the first debate of 2024]

Given a chance to show care and concern about suffering Americans, both Trump and Biden were unable to show any human interest or care in the people, the humans, who are suffering. Three softball questions, three chances to softly foot-tap a slow rolling kickball and they putter out of the way. They distract, point to each other and look into the stands, and try not to even recognize it.

I’ll tell you who won. But let them tell you first who lost one hundred percent. It is humanity, the core human situation in the bottom sixty percent of America. It is so sickening how these two-white man of a bygone generation show how white-powerful they are by quibbling and not expressing a scrap of care towards my fellow Americans.

They cannot when given easy chances show any decency, honor, or empathy to the suffering and the poor, the drug addicted and the black Americans historically repressed. They could have easily said something like the following in response these three critical issues centered around real Americans and could have at the very, very least if failing completely to address them then at least recognize their humanity, the basic humanity for chrissake.

Here are the main human issues that Americans feel, and I listened closely and heard:

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Bren Kelly

Engaged in new Ideas and old Inequalities, dismantling the system in systemic, born on the 50th Anniversary of Women's Lib Day, still seeking injustices.