Rarely do I talk to someone who says they disagree with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on policy.
It's always, "but he can't win. It's Trump or Biden."
The idea that we are so enslaved by the two-party system that we MUST vote for a lesser of two evils is entrenched in the American psyche, a product of corporate brainwashing.
Throughout history, we've had a few special opportunities to disrupt the system - but never believed in ourselves enough to vote when it counts.
In 1992, Ross Perot had the poll numbers to beat Bush and Clinton. We know now that if everyone had voted based on their polling preferences, we would've had our first independent President since, well, George Washington.
Today we stand at a crossroads in American history. For the first time in decades, we have an even greater chance of breaking the two-party system.
Joe Biden is out of the race entirely. It's a matter of time before we have a replacement.
And Trump still loses to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a landslide, according to polls.
The question is: can Americans change their mindset?
Will we realize we are truly free?
Or are we too disillusioned to rescue ourselves from the corporate stranglehold on our politics?
This is our chance... if only we dare to seize it.
My deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief who was tragically killed at yesterday's Trump rally in Pennsylvania. This morning, his daughter Allyson shared a deeply moving tribute to her father on Facebook, describing how he died shielding Allyson and her mother from the bullets that came at them. "We lost a selfless, loving, husband, father, brother, uncle, son, and friend...the best dad a girl could ever ask for,โ she wrote. "He died a real-life superhero."
The impact of the rampant vitriol and divisiveness in today's political and media landscape โ and, increasingly, political violence โ isnโt isolated to presidential candidates or political parties. As this tragedy shows, it also takes an unimaginable toll on our country's citizens: American families with hearts and hopes, like the Comperatore family.
America has fallen off the precipice, but we can still climb back up. As a nation, we can overcome this. But we need to learn how to better understand and empathize with one another, converse with respectful dialogue, and regard differing viewpoints with dignity and respect.
A GoFundMe has been set up to support Allyson and her family: https://t.co/v9dzrnmLBA
My thoughts and prayers are with the Comperatore family.
Now is the time for every American who loves our country to step back from the division, renounce all violence, and unite in prayer for President Trump and his family.
Could have been a swan on a glassy lake.
Could have been a gull in a clippers wake.
Could have been a lady bug on a wind chime,
but she was born a dragonfly.