Today I will try my best to not pontificate with my bullhorn on my orange crate in my little corner of the internet as I’m wont to do.
Here we go anyway:
Fearless Girl & Time
And not tick-tock time! On December 1, 2017, I identified women who have joined the company of ‘Fearless Girl’ and Time Magazine’s annual Person of the Year 2017 is The Silence Breakers — more company for what ‘Fearless Girl’ represents. The Time stories are painful — “if you do [speak out], your complaint becomes your identity“¹ — but this is literally facing down a figuratively charging bull.
An avalanche started.
GOP Tax reform.
No taxation with representation! And that would be representation in the form of dollars — Kochs, Mercers, Adelsons, et al.
Representation of voters?
Eh, not so much. In word only. Overall, suppression is going well. Just show up as an adult, present, able and accounted for and it will not be enough.
We require ID.
Eh?
Hard to obtain an ID?
Well, no worries. Our national experiment in a pluralist democracy may be over soon.
And we’ll return to historically scheduled ‘taxation without representation’ programming shortly.
Trump & GOP Tax reform.
He benefits. But his estate benefits bigglier when he is dead.²
Polling all millenials …
Well this is good news! From The Independent, “a majority of young people in America want a third party involved in US politics.”³ And so do I and I feel young again!
I hope Millenials can organize, identify leadership, establish a party platform and a snappy name. Bring it.
I’m here for you kids.
Project Runway Season 16: A new development. Cliff hangers.
In the run up to the finale, Project Runway featured episodes that ended in cliff hangers and we had to tune in next week to see the runway results.
I don’t know whose idea this was, but stop it. Stop it future seasons of Project Runway.
There is too much drama going on in the regular news cycle and it is hard to keep up. We do not need more drama in our reality TV show competitions. We need less.
¹ Zacharek, Stephanie; Dockterman, Elianan; Edwards, Haley Sweetland. “The Silence Breakers.” Time Magazine, Person of the Year 2017. December 2017. Web. 08 December 2017.
² And so do the rest of us. Harwell, Drew and O’Connell, Jonathan. “The many ways President Trump would benefit from the GOP’s tax plan.” The Washington Post. 10 November 2017. Web. 08 December 2017.
³ Sampathkumar, Mythili. “Majority of millenials want a third party in US politics, new poll says.” The Independent. 29 November 2017 19:45 GMT. Web. 08 December 2017 11:40 AM CST.
Aside: In a different political environment, I would also include bullhorn screams at Democrats. After all, we should all be better in our struggle for a more perfect union. As such, due to the current GOP majority rule, I hold my rage at the Dems back.
I’m here millenials, hope is in your hands.
I usually took the practical approach and voted for the candidate that would most likely win against some monster but times have changed. I totally agree we are counting on the next-gen to establish a third party not tied to financial or religious interests. The time has come!