A quick google search this evening taught me an important motivational lesson: we are not alone in this early run to the 2032 presidency. Several others (including one, curiously, from my hometown of Columbia, SC) have already laced up their boots for this race. One of the candidates, the ambitious 10-year-old Holly Togel of Denver, CO, promises to "paint the White House blue," "get all the money in the world," and buy her "grandma an airplane" so she can visit her often in the "Big Blue House." I'd like to believe that our platform is more sophisticated and far-reaching than Holly's, though she does have a certain youthful charm. I mean, you have to high-five her for tackling hugely entrenched ideologies. Make the White House blue? That's mind-blowing, original, simple, unexpected, unprecedented. I'm not easily intimated or cowed by worthy adversaries. I do, however, have to admit feeling a pinch from my future face-off with Holly. Ooh, but get your gloves, Holly. I'm here for all 12 rounds.
Message: we're the late-comers. We can't surprise with novelty. Our only option is to amaze with sheer honest brilliance ... or to hope that our future opponents will not evolve beyond Miss Togel's brand of self-indulgent, greedy leadership. We'll see who gets to live in that Big Blue House, dammit!
(At least among these frontrunners for 2032, I'm a lot longer in the tooth)
3 comments:
I'd take some comfort in your words, Shannon, except I saw a raw determination in Holly's eyes - a super-human ferocity that lit a fearful fire in me. This girl is here to play ball, I whispered to myself. And why did I whisper? Because I thought she might be listening. She could already have spies everywhere ... she has a year jump on us!
I would like to build a dream-toppling machine, fill its coal stoves to the brim, and sic it on the children.
Hello, it's Holly Tögel, the future president. I'm just saying this, the name Tögel doesn't mean to quit, the word quit means to quit, my name isn't quit now is it? I'll see you at the poll! By the way, I'm a girl and I'm not afraid to fight dirty :oP
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