Presidential and Political Thoughts

2024 — the election involving candidates that people supposedly don’t want. Yet somehow they both collected enough votes to be their party’s nominees, so someone must have wanted them.

There’s been a debate, an attempted assassination, criminal conviction of one candidate, calls for the other candidate to step aside, the promotion of a plan that seems really focused on efficiency and imposing a set of beliefs on everyone for their own good, and now the party conventions.

In the midst of all of this, I remember what my supervisor from my college internship told me. She was a district manager for a Member of Congress. She told me on day one of my internship — “You’ll quickly discover that it’s a miracle that our system of government works at all.” No truer words have ever been spoken about American government.

I haven’t read Project 2025 but have certainly seen enough about it. Here’s what I know — I think the very foundation of it is flawed. I’m not even referring to the policy ideas. So much of Project 2025 is based on an assumption that government can be made to run efficiently. I’m not sorry to tell the authors of the project that their very foundation is flawed. Even if they succeed in changing all the people in government like they plan on, American government is not designed to be efficient. The founders, who the authors of Project 2025 supposedly revere, didn’t trust government to be efficient because efficient government is oppressive government. Everything about our system of government is…