Compromise

Welcome Back!

Between other writing projects and general life, I’ve been away from this newsletter a bit longer than I had hoped to be.

A big part of that is because I’ve been unsure of what the focus should be. I’ve known for a while that I don’t want to just cover whatever the latest news is. I’m a one man operation and I simply don’t think I could manage that unless I put all my focus on covering the news.

I also didn’t want to simply put more rage out into the world, from the very beginning I’ve tried to focus on a more constructive message and help people figure out how to make the world a better place, even if it’s just something small.

With all that said, I think I’m going to shift my focus with this newsletter towards trying to take a look at where we are and the systemic changes that might make the world better for all of us.

While I wouldn’t call my ideas a “new” system of government, I’m looking at what could be considered novel ways of implementing existing ideologies in government to come up with something that might better serve all of us.

Thank you all sticking around and reading!

As we come into a new year, those of you in my former home of NYC will be getting a New Mayor. Of course, the right-wing and even mainstream media have already run their usual attacks on him for being too socialist or to Muslim. However, what’s less seen is what’s been happing on the left, where he’s being attacked and even branded a traitor for not being socialist enough.

I’ve seen this before, when I was still living in NYC, I saw the same thing happen with DiBlasio, who I actually registered as a Democrat to vote for in the primaries. Only to end up largely disappointing me in the end. Nationally, we saw the same thing happen with Obama, who was voted into office on a message of hope, and the promise of big things, only to end up being fairly unremarkable and only passing watered down versions of what he promised on the campaign trail.

Those two experiences led me to the realization that anyone who even leans left and wants to be effective in office will moderate from the positions they campaigned on. And while I wouldn’t go so far as to say that they can’t help it, or that leftist critics are being too hard on them, I do see this as a function of a system that will do almost anything to maintain status quo.

Not only are we fighting those who hold power, but we’re also fighting ourselves as we have all been indoctrinated into believing that the way things are currently is the only possible way they can be. We’ve been trained to believe that there’s no hope for anything better than what we currently have.

Politicians like Mamdani, DiBlasio, and Obama actually give hope to people that something better is actually possible, which is why so much goes into opposing them once they get any power, and why their efforts come up short so often.

That doesn’t mean we should give them a pass for not living up to our expectations. In fact, I believe that we need to be critical of our allies and push them to live up to their promises if we ever want to see things change. Instead, I hope to remind everyone that even though we are inevitably let down by our elected officials, they are often still our allies.