POLITICAL HOPE

When it comes to political talk shows, there is a major problem with each of them. Listening to the mainstream progressive shows online, I find that they have degrees in politics, economics, and a few other areas that contribute to their platform. They read stats, figures, polls, headlines, articles, and more before giving you the news; and that’s great. However, they never give one the most deadly and yet urgent ingredients to this melting pot of human suffering; hope.

Where is the hope? Think about the Right-Wing. They spew the vague rhetoric of lowering taxes, ending wars, creating fair wages, building a better net worth, and so much more for (and this important) Americans. The establishment democrats do the same thing while touting the lines of working with the right. The progressives don’t say anything they cannot backup, and still, out of all the greatness they want to do, they don’t espouse hope.

Yes, progressives are under the banner of Medicare for All, $15 minimum wage, Ending Wars, Removing Corruption across the Board, and more Forward-Thinking values, and yet, everything they say in how to pay for it, comes with the attachment of, “Over the next 10 years”. If you are, “young, dumb, and full of fun,” 10 years is nothing. For those that finally get human life and what it takes to make-it, 10 years should have happened 10 years ago. We don’t have 10 years. We have right now. We have…