For Wednesday’s debate: Enough ad hominem; enough gimmickry. How about answers and plans? How about discussing wealth inequality and quality of life? How about the lower class being the middle class (or vice versa) and the middle class being nonexistent? How about corporate corruption and profits? How about Social Security now that our parents need it more than ever because they were pillaged by Wall Street and the Great Recession? How about our massive interest accruing college and graduate school loans that many of us will die with before paying off? How about the fact that this has paralyzed families like mine? How about our children and their debt-fueled futures? How about infrastructure and the fact that NYC’s roads are among the worst of any industrialized nation…, which is A LOT of nations? How about science? How about the TRUTH in science? How about letting people worship the way they want and the way they don’t want? How about you take your religion and keep it to yourself? How about my ambitious community college students and their lack of prospects and the $2400.00 they spend per semester, which is already beyond their reaches? How about prosecuting all the fuckers on Wall Street that fucked our economy? How about throwing them in prison and releasing ALL nonviolent drug offenders? How about the fact that as I write this post, a black man is being assassinated and his loved ones will never get the answers to their questions? Fuck it, how about dismantling our entire criminal justice system? How about the women in my life – the only reason I do anything? How about ALL women and their rights to have rights for themselves, their bodies? How about the fact that women are superior to men and men use all their dirty tricks to try to make them feel inferior because men have inferiority complexes (and maybe should)? How about men going to college again so they can learn something about the world? How about securing ALL RIGHTS for our LGBTQ sisters and brothers and both and others because they’re our sisters and brothers and both and others and fathers and mothers and friends even if you want to continue to delude yourself by insisting they aren’t… and because there’s a chance you are too even if you don’t admit it (which is fine)? How about more art that violates your precious senses (you video-playing, R-rated-movie-watching hypocrites)? How about we refer to “Native” Americans as “Americans” and refer to every other group of “Americans” as “foreigners”? How about loving “foreigners”? How about protecting everyone’s right to vote, even the incarcerated? How about we take automatic and semiautomatic weapons away from everyone; and ALL guns away from anyone who uses them for anything other than hunting? How about we engage the world and talk to other nations, really talk to them, like they’re our equals? How about we talk about the issues? How about that? No bull shit. No dodging. The things that matter only. How about it? And then, if this could only happen, those of you who don’t already see what I see will see… These are just a few questions.
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