The colour purple is still purple. Real rotten roots of a country with little current hope.


No National leadership - even Obama - has ever addressed racial and income disparity in a meaningful or egalitarian way. It has and continues to exist with no meaningful discussion about a real plan that highlights the areas of the country where it’s really hard to make it, and implements a plan to fix it. Why? 


Americans are faced with a cross-generational system that is so politically corrupt that it is not even interested in what it needs to do. It is interested in doing the bare minimum it can do to prevent revolt. Even this has failed and it now has revolt on its hands. Solutions need be at the causal level. The current system offers a choice between candidates from two morally corrupt parties most interested in self-preservation than the public they are supposed to represent. Both are hell bent on stealing well-being from the other and passing it on to their respective constituents.


How did we get here? Facing a global pandemic, rioting in the streets, a movement that is challenging the most fundamental aspects of the west, and we are faced with a choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden? What!? Nothing but zero-sum escalation ahead. Neither one of these people is capable of or inclined towards the kind of leadership we need to emerge on a new path. If we do not divert our course, and are choosing between these two, we are putting on hold any solution at least four more years because the president is essential to changing our course. What we’ve got is two parties that get to decide what we choose from, and the game is preventing us from having any choice that could solve the problems. 


It is time for a fundamental breaking of the stranglehold that is the 2-party duopoly. Trump showed us it was possible to get past the parties, but it’s time for real solutions that get at the Purple Heart of an otherwise singular national identity with no middle ground - an advanced, real democracy that sets a new course for the country and forces the people and it’s politicians to think harder.

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