Music: Stealers Wheel “Stuck in the Middle with You” Is this the best we can do as a nation? These are our choices?!? Let’s face it; both of these geriatric white guys are too old to be running for the highest office in the land. We need age and term limits for public office. And we need to rid ourselves of the absurdity of lifetime appointments; whether that is for judges, tenured professors at public universities, or (with the dominance of the two party system) politicians. This is what dividing the power of our nation into only two opposing parties has brought us to. Abraham Lincoln said “a house divided cannot stand.” With their archaic primary systems and monopolies on our government; the Republicans and Democrats have turned us into two camps of “us against them.” When in reality, it is the haves versus the have nots. I named this “Old and Crazy” as a play on “Good and Plenty.” That candy (which I love) is licorice flavored while this candy is oligarchy flavored. Both our political parties are beholden to the rich and the special interests groups. Both parties are bought and paid for by the Military Industrial Complex (which Eisenhower warned our nation against), AIPAC, and the Pharmaceutical and Energy Industries. Our politicians become wealthy as they live on the public dole under the guise of “public servants.” I’m not a democrat, but I always vote with them. But that is only because I care about women’s rights, civil rights, and the environment. But besides these “social” issues, the parties are identical and will continue to bleed our country dry as they fund foreign wars and world military domination, refuse to update our healthcare, transportation and energy systems, and allow unlimited dollars from the rich to pour into their pockets and campaigns. Is this it? A candidate who tried to overthrow our government to replace it with something more limited and even more dominated by the rich? Or a candidate who should be shopping for retirement homes and, by staying in the race, is demonstrating that his judgement is just as flawed and dangerous as his opponent’s? Do we deserve better? Or has our complacency given us exactly what we deserve? (I created this work after the 1st debate in 2024 and before “Old” dropped out. Spoiler alert: “Crazy” won)

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