It’s rare that I use terms such as Democrat or Republican. In fact, I’ve hardly mentioned Donald Trump’s name in this publication in four full years.
But we can’t not talk about it today…
I didn’t vote in the United States Presidential Election. By moving to Puerto Rico, I traded my right to vote in US federal elections for a 4% tax rate, so I don’t have a horse in this race.
But I’m watching from afar, curious about how major media organizations decide not just how the election issues are covered, but whether they’re covered in the first place.
It may well be that Big Tech and Big Media ultimately decide not only how elections are covered, but who ‘wins’ any given race. (The New York Times, in fact, had to retract a Tweet stating that “the role of declaring the winner of a presidential election in the U.S. falls to the news media.” They can untweet it, but they can’t unthink it.)
It may well be that the new process to “vote earlier and earlier… count later and later… and time ‘discoveries’ to the news cycle” will simply render your choices moot.
Additionally, it may well be that you have to live with the consequences of other people’s infuriating choices… whether it’s whom they vote for, whether they lock down your city again, what they make you wear in public, what you’re supposed to think or believe, or what you have to put into your body.
And it may well be that you’re sick of it all. If there’s one infection bigger than the ‘rona this year, it’s power lust.
So, what can you do? A lot, it turns out.
As I wrote in Notes from the Field on November 4th, the very real unraveling of America -- fiscally, socially, and otherwise -- “doesn’t mean you can’t have a landslide victory all on your own… [E]very step you take in crafting a Plan B is a vote for yourself. And with enough votes for yourself, there is no way you can’t win, regardless of what happens in the world.”
Today we’ll talk about four areas where you can vote for yourself, and take back control… no matter what happens next.
But we can’t not talk about it today…
I didn’t vote in the United States Presidential Election. By moving to Puerto Rico, I traded my right to vote in US federal elections for a 4% tax rate, so I don’t have a horse in this race.
But I’m watching from afar, curious about how major media organizations decide not just how the election issues are covered, but whether they’re covered in the first place.
It may well be that Big Tech and Big Media ultimately decide not only how elections are covered, but who ‘wins’ any given race. (The New York Times, in fact, had to retract a Tweet stating that “the role of declaring the winner of a presidential election in the U.S. falls to the news media.” They can untweet it, but they can’t unthink it.)
It may well be that the new process to “vote earlier and earlier… count later and later… and time ‘discoveries’ to the news cycle” will simply render your choices moot.
Additionally, it may well be that you have to live with the consequences of other people’s infuriating choices… whether it’s whom they vote for, whether they lock down your city again, what they make you wear in public, what you’re supposed to think or believe, or what you have to put into your body.
And it may well be that you’re sick of it all. If there’s one infection bigger than the ‘rona this year, it’s power lust.
So, what can you do? A lot, it turns out.
As I wrote in Notes from the Field on November 4th, the very real unraveling of America -- fiscally, socially, and otherwise -- “doesn’t mean you can’t have a landslide victory all on your own… [E]very step you take in crafting a Plan B is a vote for yourself. And with enough votes for yourself, there is no way you can’t win, regardless of what happens in the world.”
Today we’ll talk about four areas where you can vote for yourself, and take back control… no matter what happens next.
It’s rare that I use terms such as Democrat or Republican. In fact, I’ve hardly mentioned Donald Trump’s name in this publication in four full years. But we can’t not talk about it today… I didn’t vote in the United States Presidential Election. By moving to Puerto Rico, I traded my right to vote in…
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