a frustrated
exhausted and divided
nation hungry for
Regardless of your side or point of view, there was a paragraph that resonated for most folks in the NYT opinion piece, I Was a Kamala Harris Skeptic. Here’s How I Got Coconut-Pilled by Lydia Polgreen where Ms. Polgreen wrote:
Americans have been through a lot since early 2020 —
a pandemic,
Jan. 6,
a turbulent economy and high inflation,
the invasion of Ukraine,
the slaughter in Israel and Gaza and the never-ending 2024 presidential race.
I also wondered if the Trump-Biden era changed what we want from a president.
We are a frustrated, exhausted and divided nation.
Most Americans believe we are on the wrong track, and we spent the past 20 months staring at a grim choice between Biden and Trump, the two men whose presidencies sent us down that track.
Many of us are hungry for something new.
We are a frustrated, exhausted and divided nation.
Wasn’t our political system supposed to deliver the best and the brightest
A frustrated, exhausted and divided nation forced into reelecting one of the two men whose presidencies sent us down that track.
I am reminded of Will Rodgers when he said, “Why don’t they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as Prohibition did, in five years we will have the smartest people on earth.”
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