Elect Caitlin Clark America’s Next President

Sometime this month will be election day in the United States. Hence, I felt responsible for setting the context and offering insights you won’t get anywhere else during this unsettling time in American history.

We are a crossroads in so many ways: divided, incompatible, vindictive, small-minded, intolerant, manipulative, ill-tempered, outrageous, combustible, vacuous, heavy-handed, withdrawn, dismayed, forlorn, dejected, downtrodden, frustrated, insincere, and vengeful. Besides this, all is well.

We might as well come clean about where we are. Get psychologically naked and admit how bad this all makes us feel, the process leading up to electing our next president, election day, and all the personal tensions that inevitably dominate every day thereafter.

This country was once a powerhouse and may still be, but in the political arena it feels like we’re on the ropes like a boxer taking punches to our heads and then making excuses and whining like sixth graders. And blaming the ref for our problems.

We need to think differently about this election but we know it will never happen because politicians want power much more than being good human beings.

We need to forge a new path, break new ground, and change how we do everything.

The specifics I’ll leave to y’all. You’ll figure it out. Being kind is a good starting point.

Being candid, this is all the energy I have to expend on anything political because there is no bigger waste of time; nothing ever changes. Power pollutes people. So does the lust for it. Back in the 17th Century Shakespeare wrote all about this, and he was as right then as now. Humans are weak when it comes to wanting to control everything; they can’t resist it.

But America likes some people more than others. Caitlin Clark is the best example. If she ran for president sometime later this month, I would vote for her and so would 100 million or more Americans because she stands for what we stand for: working hard, practicing your craft, not offending people, not being petty, being nice to young kids.

Being a good person.

Why can’t we elect people like her? Why can’t we elect someone we admire and respect such as her who has shown by her actions and words she’s doing what we want all Americans to do? She’s a citizen of this country who wakes up in the morning, goes to work, and strives for greatness.

In stark contrast, politics poisons people. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been getting bombarded with ads non-stop from candidates shouting interruptive 30-second messages at me about how bad the other candidate is with maximum vitriol. Feels like, and certainly is, desperation – for power. It’s shallow.

It’s beneath American ideals. I would never teach my kid to grow up and make attack ads against his political opponent to win an election. It may work but so do fraudulent scams against older adults but that doesn’t make them right.

I care about people treating each other with more dignity rather than hostility with the intent to hurt and discourage. This isn’t asking for that much. But we rarely get it. Not in politics.

None of us are proud of this back-and-forth immature behavior. Yet we all know four years from now the same personal attacks will be hurled and we’ll be the targets.

Step aside, politicians.

Elect Caitlin Clark.

America needs her much more than you.