2020

I suppose I begin with the assumption that fundamental change is desperately needed. 

I do believe income inequality and the shrinking of the middle class is real and that it's due to a rigged system. Washington is paralyzed, ineffective, corrupt - primarily due to campaign finance law and structure, and special interest lobbying. Our government is the best money can buy - paid for almost entirely by less than 400 families that possess incredible wealth and power. 

And I do think we are dangerously close to corporatism - a form of fascism. At the least we do not have a system that can effectively deal with long range problems not centered on profit and consumerism - i.e. global warming, pandemics, automation and job loss.

I see nothing new this election - in a time that demands change - deep fundamental change. Anything is better than Trump is true, but misleading. The depth of corruption and the numbers of those compromised in congress by our enemies is not being factored in or really addressed.

But even if we somehow rid ourselves of Trump and McConnell and his clones, the system is so broken, so corrupt, the nation so polarized and misinformed, that we are not going to be able to effectively address our growing existential threats - no matter who is president. Witness our failures with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. 

As Mueller and the senate have shown – no one is going to swoop in and save us. We must stop looking for a savoir, and save ourselves. But that would take a social uprising the likes of which this country has never seen.

Unfortunately, we are unlikely to see it now.