This may be a stupid tangent, but my head hurts at the moment.

In grad school, I went to dinner one night with a fellow Ph.D student, our faculty advisor, and a standout researcher in our field.

The four of us were from Kentucky, Virginia, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. (1/x)

At one point during dinner, one of us joked about being from a Commonwealth, not a State, then we realized that the table represented the four Commonwealths of USA. (2/x)

Kentucky is a Commonwealth.

A & #39;commonwealth& #39; is a political community founded for the common good.

We need commonwealths more than ever. We don& #39;t have them, and as a country, we& #39;re sprinting away from that ideal. Kentucky failed badly. (3/x)

Our goal as a country should be to do what is best for everyone who calls it home. Be a real fucking commonwealth. And we don& #39;t.

Too often when politicians try to espouse the best interests of everyone they get tagged with a label like & #39;socialist& #39;. (4/x)

And the entrenched, historic, systemic racism isn& #39;t going away soon.

So, yes, vote. But keep voting + vote with the best interests of all 330 million people at heart in every single one.

One election isn& #39;t going to fix this thing. It& #39;s going to take decades of elections.//