250 Candles, One Question
Is your life better than it was in 2016?
📡 On my Radar
This Saturday the U.S. turns 250.
There will be fireworks, tall ships, and speeches about how far we have come.
The speeches won’t be half wrong. Over 250 years we’ve extended the vote to women and people of color, built a middle class, and roughly doubled the human lifespan.
But nobody lives on a 250-year clock. A life plays out in decades, and the decade you are in is the one that counts. So let’s ask a smaller question: are those same things better than they were ten years ago?
Over the past ten years your right to vote is shrinking as a person of color, as is the middle class, and the American life expectancy has been falling every year since 2016.
It doesn’t stop there. Housing costs more. College costs more. Federal services have been gutted. Political violence is rising. And we spend less time with friends and more time alone.
Part of the problem is what we consider a “right.” The Founding Fathers protected Americans from the state. They said nothing about rent, the hospital bill, or hunger, and nothing about the corporations that now set the price of all three. So today … a homeless woman blocked from protesting gets an army of free speech lawyers like me at her side, but God forbid she ask for a meal, a bed, or medical care.
The next 250 years should close these gaps. Treat all three as rights. Defend your right to a meal as zealously as we defend your right to free speech. End the zoning that walls off opportunity. Make Election Day a holiday.
Now that would be worth a parade.
📈 By the Numbers
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