Dear Madam/Mister Time To Come President

As I am writing this, you lot don’t yet exist, together with I promise you lot never will. As I am writing this, at to the lowest degree one-half a dozen people are all the same standing inwards the quadrennial jousting tournament nosotros telephone telephone elections. Elections inwards America is that brief together with fleeting menses of fourth dimension when Washington DC turns its gaze to the residue of the province feigning passionate involvement inwards our lives. This fourth dimension around America is staring dorsum at you lot inwards seething anger. In the olden days, this would endure the proper fourth dimension for tar together with feathers, for pitchforks, together with for burning you lot inwards effigy. Nowadays, this is the fourth dimension for Twitter trolling together with lack of what you lot telephone telephone decorum inwards populace discourse. Like all good fed, self-described benevolent aristocrats inwards the past, you lot appear surprised at our indifference to your accomplishments, together with shocked at our plebian preference for petroleum together with fall champions of our ain choosing.

Try non to worry likewise much. Time, together with the robust voter suppression machine you lot together with your “donors” built over centuries of enlightened democracy, is on your side. You volition prevail. There volition endure no impractical socialist inwards the White House, together with no vulgar human being of affairs volition endure allowed to acquit upon the intricate spider web of global domination your donors weaved over decades of hard piece of work together with heroic determination. Not peacefully. Not without a vehement American Spring. Not inwards our lifetime. Not piece you lot lead hold a practiced “ground game” to learn votes. Not piece you lot lead hold large information to “profile”, “target” together with “persuade” voters. There actually is cipher I desire to say you, or inquire of you, because I know exactly what you lot volition endure doing inwards the side yesteryear side iv years, just let’s maintain this farce where you lot pretend to endure a populace servant, together with I pretend to endure an engaged citizen.

You are patently “electable”, which agency you lot passionately advocate for cipher inwards particular, inwards long erudite sentences that ascension at the rattling halt (like JFK). You for sure facial expression “presidential”, which agency that you’re non likewise fatty or likewise former or likewise short, your nails are trimmed together with your pilus is combed.  You addressed every policy nook together with cranny inwards your issue-oriented debates, inwards your canned stump speeches together with inwards your 10 indicate policy proposals that volition travel obsolete 1 time the final polling station closes on Nov 8th. But at that topographic point is 1 thing nobody is talking about. No clever moderator is asking, no candidate is volunteering an opinion, allow lonely a “plan” to tackle what is mayhap the defining number of our times.

“It's nearly the side yesteryear side xx years. In the '20s together with '30s it was the travel of government. '50s together with '60s it was civil rights. The side yesteryear side 2 decades are going to endure privacy. I'm talking nearly the Internet. I'm talking nearly jail cellphone phones. I'm talking nearly wellness records together with who's gay together with who's not. And moreover, inwards a province born on the volition to endure free, what could endure to a greater extent than primal than this?” –Sam Seaborn, The West Wing, Episode 9: The Short List (for Supreme Court appointees), 1999

The events of the novel millennium create non appear to back upwards Sam Seaborn’s prediction, together with your get is stark testimony that privacy is to endure forfeited without much pushback from whatever quarters. We could debate that principled liberals of the previous century were sick equipped to appreciate the truthful benefits of the Faustian grapple nosotros are forthwith making alongside the Lords of the Global Digital Panopticon. One could also debate that since the days of Sam Seaborn, privacy has travel all just extinct, together with lo together with behold the heaven of liberty hasn’t fallen. Or has it?

Let’s convey a quick facial expression at your get operations. Did you lot avail yourself of a voter database? Are you lot paying for special software that “appends the richest laid of consumer together with involvement data, allowing the most sophisticated targeting” of voters? Do you lot employ an basis forces of techies inwards the basement of your national headquarters, similar the landmark Obama digital get did? Do you lot lead hold an app on iTunes that tracks your “supporters”, their friends together with their families, everywhere they go? Is your voter sectionalization machine spitting out properly scripted “messages” at the most opportune fourth dimension for the most receptive individuals? Do you lot recollect this is what Thomas Jefferson meant yesteryear liberty together with liberty? Or create you lot recollect that’s what your kindergarten instructor meant yesteryear lying together with cheating? Do you lot fifty-fifty care?

Politics inwards an historic menses without private privacy is equally principled equally marketing john paper. Your gear upwards is softer, stronger, to a greater extent than absorbent, bigger, smaller, whiter, greener, together with rattling much preferred yesteryear wild bears inwards the forest. You represent cipher together with everything. You represent moderation inwards the North together with you lot represent God inwards the South, together with you lot represent Nelson Mandela to offset all the white former men who deal your campaign. You represent America inwards the abstract, together with job personal misfortunes of citizens to illustrate your history book, just fifty-fifty if your pathetic mom or dad were of the people, you lot lead hold long agone ceased to endure 1 of us. The argue nosotros are asked to vote for you lot is the same argue nosotros are asked to select Charmin instead of Cottonelle, alongside the same de minimis consequences.

Now let’s convey a facial expression at Obamacare, which you lot are sure to tinker with, 1 way or another. In your mind, Obamacare is nearly money. It’s nearly premiums, deductibles together with pct uninsured, just if that’s all Obamacare was about, it wouldn’t lead hold required hundreds of densely typed pages, together with it wouldn’t lead hold triggered a seismic sea wave of lesser legislations forthwith percolating through Congress. In reality, Obamacare is how your donors job the latest technology scientific discipline to ensure that futurity elections are complimentary from glitches that allow former communists together with potty mouthed billionaires to come upwards unopen to disrupting a carefully constructed world order. Obamacare is non nearly a human correct to wellness tending together with it’s non nearly keeping Americans from dying inwards the streets, equally your rogue competitors appear to believe. Obamacare is how Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon (GAFA), together with their Silicon Valley brethren, convey command of human life on earth, together with learn rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Obamacare is nearly replacing personal together with deadening medicine, alongside high-tech, high-speed, precision medicine administered through metallic element algorithms supplied yesteryear your donor community. Obamacare is nearly managing expectations (you should endure familiar alongside that footling game), to gear upwards the busywork of tracking together with scoring citizens appear similar medical care. Obamacare is nearly shifting the locus of medical determination making from private people together with their doctors to the invisible mitt of computerized bureaucracy. Obamacare is to wellness tending what high-speed trading is to stock markets. To this end, Obamacare must unleash a biblical inundation of personal information for its doomsday machines to consume, together with dutifully part alongside other stakeholders, such equally your get software vendor. Any remote notions of physical together with mental privacy are so obstacles to progress.

Perhaps it is logical that your political party together with the other political party equally well, lead hold viciously turned on their front end runners inwards an endeavour to select a nominee alongside the best ROI tape for those who consider themselves owners of a global humanity.  Perhaps it’s non yesteryear accident that Obamacare which was commencement known equally HillaryCare, together with and so equally RomneyCare, may eventually endure known equally BushLeagueCare. Perhaps, equally our own, bought together with paid for, disruptive innovators dearest to indicate out to their less enthusiastic colleagues, this is all inevitable. Perhaps, just somehow, at some indicate inwards this long game, the courts volition lead hold to weigh inwards together with determine if the framers of our Constitution intended to laid upwards a authorities whose sole business office is to capture together with deliver its citizens to global moneyed interests for lifetime exploitation.

This Saturday, Justice Antonin Scalia died. In this election yr the green together with customary Equus caballus trading to topographic point an “acceptable”, thus yesteryear necessity mediocre, gauge on our Supreme Court bench for life, may non endure an option. The insurmountable occupation of nominating the side yesteryear side Supreme Court Justice may solid reason inwards your lap, pretty much on your commencement 24-hour interval inwards office. There is a bold together with beautiful solution to this quandary, a grand grapple that rises inwards a higher house your petty political party politics, together with for that you’d lead hold to plow 1 time to a greater extent than to the liberal fantasy called The West Wing (Season 5, Episode 17: The Supremes, 2004). Unless the Obama administration, which over the years exhibited a peculiar involvement inwards reenacting The West Wing, beats you lot to it, you lot volition learn to appoint (unopposed) 2 Supreme Court Justices together with the rare chance to stand upwards “in the gaze of history”.

Unfortunately, whether you lot belong to Clan Clinton or are hailing from the Bushes, I am having difficulty imagining you lot giving upwards whatever perceived political party advantages for the sake of judicial excellence on the Court. I tin for sure imagine the angry socialist together with the mercurial human being of affairs rising inwards a higher house the pettiness, just this wasn’t meant to be. Not this year. The side yesteryear side iv years are yours, together with you lot volition demand to hurry upwards together with bolt the doors together with bar the windows. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 actually large war, preferably inwards Europe, would assist tremendously. Either way though, your days are numbered. We are no longer progressive or conservative. We are either feeding at your trough or nosotros are not, together with at that topographic point are many to a greater extent than of us than at that topographic point are of you, together with 1 of these days nosotros volition lead hold cipher left to lose. Not fifty-fifty our privacy.