What America Represents You in 2024

The general Welfart [That’s not a typo, it’s the result of a severe malady]

“Gentlemen, I thought we told Geroge to have them swords, not stars, on the flag” [LOC.gov people owned]

We confront as a nation the biggest decision we’ve ever faced in the 2024 election: which party to choose to ignore us.

It’s not about the two old egoists unwilling to step aside for better candidates with energy, who can give interviews vibrantly, and totally engaged with all the problems and issues and solutions, like Gavin Newsome or Pete Buttigieg who I just saw speak. Trump speaks in an authoritarian word salad of razors and nails and Biden doesn’t speak at all, being the first President in the modern era not to sit down for an interview. Everyone — but their party leaders, paid pundits, and the press — would prefer they check their egos at the door and collect social security and retire into well-tended, white-napkinned, golf course communities. But they are both thinking of themselves first.

The bigger problem is that the system doesn’t represent us. You would think a representative democracy would be a system where we care about what the founders called “the general Welfare,” a system of collective cooperation. We pool our resources to pay for what affects our daily lives, then, and only then, once the base conditions are taken care of, people can pursue wealth, education, art, or whatever.