Anybody else feeling like this would be a great time for the U.S. to be conquered? Like not a violent war, just a really peaceful takeover — more like an intervention by all the other friendly democracies out there who've been watching what's been going on here...

"United States, do you know why we brought you here today? Your Constitution was built on a foundation of inequality, all your branches of government have been co-opted by minority rule, and you're endangering the whole world with your ineptness..."

"In short, you're toxic, and we're just not putting up with it anymore. We're here to give you a fresh start, a nice little makeover, and something more resembling the much better forms of democracy we've figured out since you got it all started back in 1619 — I mean 1776..."

We're just such a hot mess, and it sounds so much easier to fix things if we just got a full reboot instead of trying to make work everything as we have it now.

These are my uplifting dystopian thoughts for the day.