I Don't Think There Will

A Huge Constituency, Such As Hispanics, Is Not 100 Percent Democratic.

There Is No Single Field Of Activity, Not A Single Institution, Free Of The Most Brutal Sort Of Corruption. Russia Has Bred A World-class Mafia.

What About Our Refusal To Look Squarely At The Degradation Of The Planet We Inhabit? In The Last Election Cycle Many Candidates Refused Even To Acknowledge The Hard Science, Irrefutable Science, Of Climate Change. The President, While Readily Accepting The Facts, Has Done Far Too Little To Alter Them. How Long Are We, Are You, Prepared To Wait?

The World Is A Crazy, Beautiful, Ugly Complicated Place, And It Keeps Moving On From Crisis To Strangeness To Beauty To Weirdness To Tragedy. The Caravan Keeps Moving On, And The Job Of The Longform Writer Or Filmmaker Or Radio Broadcaster Is To Stop - Is To Pause - And When The Caravan Goes Away, That's When This Stuff Comes.

Maybe Santa Claus Is Real. Here's The Problem: Reality.