This is a note for the younger generations.
We’ve had 250 years of entitled white guys (with one notable exception) running things.
We are now at the pinnacle (or nadir, whichever you prefer).
In those 250 years, 230 of them have been war. We’ve had 20 years of peace. In 250 years.
The man currently in the White House is a crime boss, a rapist, and a conman. If you took every single horrible thought, cruel impulse, and twisted desire that men normally fight against and compressed them all into one man, it would be Donald Trump.
Rape culture is rampant; health care is only for the elite few, food and gas are becoming more and more scarce, the environment is turning inhabitable, and the nation is full of racism, distrust, ugliness, hatred, greed and lust.
The ones who have spoken out against it all the most effectively have been women. And now I even read about “Getting rid of liberal women” when they are the only ones keeping the slightest bit of sanity around us.
Truth has fallen in the street and equity cannot enter.
The president uses his words to cause riots and hatred and violence in the street.
To the younger generations. We’ve left you a mess. Old white guys have left you a crumbling ruin and they continue to desperately hang on to power long after they should be corpses. And we still aren’t sure how much of Mitch is still left.
It will take courage and compassion, and speaking as an old white guy, I would be glad to entrust this mess to those who would do far better than we did.
But now is the time to start and to take up the reins. Don’t let this election pass you by. Get out there and vote.
You have a choice all over the country. You won’t find perfection. You won’t find it anywhere.
But your choices are these: The same shit that has been poisoning us for decades – greed, racism, misogyny, rape culture, entitled power, madness and death.
Or those who will do their best to shore up what is left and leave a better world to the next generation.
The future belongs to you. Do you know that nasty uncle that you have to put up with at Thanksgiving, with the foul mouth, hateful words, stupidity and groping hands?
You can bet your ass he’s voting.
I say that it is time to quit allowing him to elect our leaders.
Get out and vote. We can do better.
