What are you even talking about?
What does it mean to live in a nation that, since its very creation, didn’t contemplate you as a separate yet wholly equal human being? Today, about seventy percent of the people living in America would have been originally left uncontemplated by the U.S. Constitution. Not considered. Not thought of by the architects of the great American experiment. We were not, then or now, considered essential to American exceptionalism.
1. Why does this matter now?
As we approach the 2024 Presidential election, America remains stuck in a quagmire of culture wars and battles over Constitutional interpretation, which are threatening the civil rights of hundreds of millions of Americans. If you are a woman, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, an immigrant, or a person living with a disability, that quagmire is deeply affecting you. In very real terms, you are being governed by an apathetic Constitution.
2. Come together, right now.
Collectively, there are more of us.
3. Throw it all in a blender…
Uncontemplated is a memoir of my friendship with Senator George McGovern and my 2012 Congressional campaign for Florida’s 6th Congressional District, which I lost to Ron DeSantis. Just as McGovern and Nixon did in 1972, DeSantis and I debated Marriage, Equality, Poverty, Voting Rights, Access to Healthcare, Immigration, and War. Policies - one and all - that had been stuck in neutral for forty years. In November 2024, we will decide whether or not to stay stuck for a fifth decade.
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5. Fifty F***ing Years Has Come and Gone
“A career politician finally smelling the White House is not much different from a bull elk in the rut. He will stop at nothing, trashing anything that gets in his way; and anything he can’t handle personally he will hire out—or, failing that, make a deal. It is a difficult syndrome for most people to understand, because few of us ever come close to the kind of Ultimate Power and Achievement that the White House represents to a career politician.” Hunter S. Thompson