Well done Marley. Your recent pieces have taken a more useful perspective in moving the world forward--from this 62-year old white guy's eyes.

This phrase below really struck me:

"if my people get the right to vote for who they want to represent them."

In the USA, the people only have two choices: the R ticket or the D ticket. We can only choose who the parties have proffered up as names.

In many places in the USA, it is often obvious which party is going to win the general election. A fencepost could win such an election. So the party primaries are actually more important then the general election. Who votes in the primaries? Maybe 10% of the population? Is this really a democracy?

You know I have a solution for this paradox. Maybe it's time for some people to build a new democracy rather than bend this older version, which doesn't seem to be working so well.