Most elections in this country are decided long before a single vote is cast.

Not in a booth. Not in a debate.

But in a back room by the people drawing the map.

Two parties falsely claiming they support you.

This isn’t democracy. It’s performance.

And it’s working exactly as designed.

You don’t have to pick a side to stand for something.

There was a time when nuance wasn’t a sin.
When you could say “both parties are wrong here” and still be taken seriously.

Now they call that weakness.

But I don’t think clarity is weakness.
I think it’s the beginning of courage.

They want us to forget what healthy disagreement looks like.
To believe this mess is just how politics works now.
But it’s not.

The shouting, the shaming, the purity tests.
They’re not signs of strength.
They’re signs of a system that’s run out of ideas.

And we can do better than this.

Remember when people could disagree in public & still go to lunch?
When compromise wasn’t a betrayal, but a goal?
Now, if you question your party, you're labeled a traitor.
That’s not democracy. That’s indoctrination.
We may have inherited a culture of punishment, but we don’t have to pass it down.

It wasn’t always like this.

We used to argue over ideas, not identities.
Disagreeing with someone didn’t mean you wanted to destroy them.
Debate made us better. Now it just makes us enemies.

This chaos isn’t normal.
It’s been engineered to divide us.
They win if we pretend it’s the only way.

They want you to feel alone.
Like you’re the only one tired of the lies.
The only one who sees the game.

But look around.
Millions of us are thinking the same thing.

We just haven’t had a voice that brings us together.
Yet...

The biggest myth in politics today?
That the middle is where ideas go to die.

The truth is, it’s where they go to survive.
To be tested. To be improved.

Compromise isn’t weakness.
It’s how grown-ups solve problems.

Both parties are acting like the country has only two gears:
🟥 full retreat into a fictional past
🟦 full sprint into ideological purity

And if you don’t pick a side, you’re labeled a coward.

But refusing to buy into either extreme?
That’s not cowardice.
That’s courage.

A lot of us didn’t change.
We still believe in hard work, kindness, responsibility, and fairness.
But the parties we once trusted twisted themselves to extremes, and then told us we were the problem.

We’re not the problem.
We’re the proof that something better still exists.

Congress just advanced the most dangerous bill you’ve never heard of.

H.R. 1526 would block courts from issuing nationwide injunctions—even against unconstitutional laws.

This is how you dismantle democracy with a pen.

#HR1526 #NoRogueRulingsAct #USPolitics #ChecksAndBalances

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~2,300 projects from 30 countries invited to submit social impact projects and we took home the silver

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