The Long View From 1964 3 of 6 – The Checkbox Problem

Michael and Sarah Walker

The Long View From 1964 3 of 6 - The Checkbox Problem

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What I am is a moderate. A person who believes in making decisions carefully, in recognizing complexity, in not burning the house down because you’re angry at the neighbors. A person who wants others to make their own informed choices rather than be handed a script.

The labels don’t fit anymore. And the system was not built for the moment when the labels stop fitting.

I am 79 years old. I have been voting since 1964. And this is the first time I have felt genuinely politically homeless.

But here is the thing about being lost, recognizing it is not the end. It is actually the beginning. Before you can define where you are going, you have to be honest about where you are. That is what this is. The first step in figuring out what a political identity looks like when the old labels have stopped telling the truth.