DO NOT BE FOOLED BY THE (R) or (D) AFTER (((THEIR))) NAMES.
THEY WANT YOU SIVIDED TO CONTROL YOU.
In April 2000, I was in my final semester of grad school with dreams of going to DC as a political consultant to make a difference. I was invited to present a research paper at an international conference for political consultants at JFK School at Harvard. Opportunity of a lifetime. Or so I thought.
I was surrounded by a who’s-who of people you saw on the news every night. On the 2nd night of this 3-day conference, I was invited to dinner by one of the most influential political consultants in America. At the dinner, he complimented my work and my insight and slid his business card across the table to me with a job off including a dollar amount that would have definitely changed my zip code. I asked him to give me 24 hours to consider his offer. He agreed. He then took me to an after-event in a local pub where all the others of both political stripes had gathered. We all sat at this long table, and I was in awe at the political power sitting around me shooting the shit together with no arguments or debates. Then one man said something that changed my life and my future. “Listen, political parties are becoming irrelevant to the average voter. They are beginning to vote on issues rather than parties, and this is destroying both parties. If it continues, we won’t have jobs in two more election cycles.” Then they literally sat in that pub, Rs and Ds alike, and claimed which party would grab what issue, and thus divided the electorate again, not because of principles, but based on keeping the us/them mentality of elections alive. Improving America was not their goal. Consolidating their power by dividing us was.
I left the gathering, went to my hotel, puked my guts out, and flew out the next morning without attending another session of the conference and never giving an answer for the offer on the business card. Upon returning home, I deleted my thesis and never completed my final semester of grad school. I have never voted since. And in that time, I have seen the movers and shakers do exactly what they were scheming about that night at a pub in Harvard. They have destroyed us by dividing us.
I began following Q from the moment they began posting and have followed along with each migration. I see the potential for a change in DC for once.
Q,
Please give me a reason to finally vote to make a difference again. Give me that much-needed promise of a better future for my kids. Give me tangible proof of a better tomorrow.