An open letter to Joe Biden

I’ve got a question for you.

Hey, Joe. Is it cool if I call you Joe?

Listen. I think it’s safe to say that shit is Not Going Well in this country, yeah? I mean, even before Covid hit, we were swirling the proverbial drainpipe as far as global reputation goes. And faith in our leadership. And, you know. Any kind of hope for the future, for a lot of us. The future was looking bleak already. We were having arguments about whether health care is something everyone should have access to, whether or not we should protect the environment, whether or not keeping kids in cages was morally right or wrong. We were worried about RBG, and what the next 20 years of SCOTUS might bring us. We were watching the rich get insanely, laughably, incomprehensibly richer while those of us who should be starting families and buying homes, or at least reaching some level of security, are living in shitbox apartments or with our parents or barely scraping by, hoping that we can maybe someday have enough in our bank accounts to like, contemplate a down payment on anything…

Anyway. I digress. Sort of.

And now, now we’re looking at a future with so many variables. So much uncertainty. And while we sit in our homes, scared for ourselves and our families, unable to distract ourselves with browsing Target for cheap thrills on weekends, we see the divide between rich and poor growing even more stark. We see how our government is so completely out of touch with any kind of reality (like, seriously…