The School Bus Funeral

With the midterm primaries just twenty days away (side note: we are officially halfway done with this summer and I feel old saying this but where has the time gone?!), I'm feeling now, more than ever, the political animosity that's bubbling over as we speak. My personal thoughts on the midterms aside (I'll get there, I promise), I came across a curious article this morning:

A Mile Long Progression of Buses is Carrying Items From School Shooting Victims to Ted Cruz's House

The 4,368 empty seats are meant to honor the number of children killed by gun violence this year. Manuel Oliver, the creator of this very public procession, has penned a letter to Ted Cruz, begging him to enact stronger gun control legislation. 

The NRA Children's Musem, as named by Manuel Oliver

Hopefully this makes you incredibly uncomfortable, because it should. Hopefully your jaw is on the floor right now, because mine was, too. But, alas, this post isn't dedicated to my pro-gun control beliefs (nor are we going to tear Ted Cruz to shreds). It just made me realize how incredibly out of touch our prospective representatives are this election. Universal dissatisfaction seems to seep through the air and honestly, it could very well be bottled and sold as perfume at this point. Not a single candidate -- democratic or republican -- has their pulse on the needs and wants of the voting America this November; no party will prevail because of their novel, robust solutions -- whichever party wins will win because they're the lesser of two evils. 

If I were running a campaign this summer, I'd spend every waking minute talking about my plan to fix the economy. And I'm sure it's quite difficult to fix the situation we're in right now, so perhaps a clear cut solution will never exist. But it seems as though Biden and his counterparts aren't even pretending to try to fix it! Instead, he's visiting James Corden and getting meme-d for his sunglasses!

I'd like to consider myself a political junkie. I like to follow big political events (LIKE ELECTIONS) and keep track of prospective candidates as they plow through their careers. This November, however, I could not tell you one candidate that is running in the midterms besides Andy Levin. Either I'm getting lazier, or our country's representitives are. 

Hopefully, come Novemeber, the blogpost I write will be a tad more optimistic.