There are things that I cannot wait to do when this pandemic is over. I want to dance to loud music in a crowded room and feel the energy of the tunes and people pulse through me. I want to go to a popular restaurant with a long wait time and squish myself into an open space at the bar where it’s standing room only. I want to make aggressive eye contact with strangers on public transit and appreciate that they are in the b-roll of the movie playing in my head. I want to sit in the back of a …
Personal
Chapter III – What now?
Decision-makers are merely fallible humans in elected positions It would be easier to believe that humans were either good or bad. Nature has been presented as a duality across all of our means of understanding the world, from religion to literature to mere observable natural phenomenon. The world would rather deal with a binary, because when you start talking about spectrums, things get messy. It becomes uncomfortable, contradictory, unfamiliar. I used to think like that. Not about issues …
Introduction
The United States is facing an ideological identity crisis Within the political realm, Democrats are imploding over the fight to determine whom the party should select as the official nominee in the June 2020 primaries. On the other side, the majority of career Republicans are increasingly embracing Trumpism and dismissing blatant disregard for rule of law while eschewing traditional Republican values. For a country with only two meaningful parties, partisan fights are the norm. John Stuart …
Preface
This is the Manifesto for the Millennial Liberal Almost exactly 4 years ago, as an expat grad student in England, I wrote a piece on Medium voicing my unequivocal support for Senator Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential bid. Three months after I published it, I woke up to the news that the people of the United Kingdom had voted to exit the European Union. Shortly after, I moved back home to the States and very nervously monitored the final months of Hillary campaigning against Trump. On Tuesday, …