A Note to the Pundits and Pols

This is kind of a big place.

Dear thousands of people who are running for the Presidency, covering the upcoming election or publicly opining about the whole gigantic mess;

This is a letter from the American People.

I mean, sure, it’s actually a letter from one cranky older lady in Massachusetts. But I think I speak for all of us when I tell you the following. Please read it with an open mind.

We the People,

….the American people, are a really big group. There are lots of us. As in many millions. We tried, but we couldn’t all fit around one big table at Starbucks. In fact, there are so many of us that we can’t even fit in a really big conference room.

Or the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Or the Grand Canyon.

Do you get it? We are a big, big pile of men, women, and children. We are a huge mass of humanity, all living here between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

We come in a whole bunch of colors, shapes, and sizes, too. If you could somehow manage to cram all of into one place, we would hardly recognize each other! Some of us are chubby middle-aged white women with plastic bifocals on. Some are tall, skinny black men wearing three-piece suits. Some wear hijabs, some wear saris and some of us wear yoga pants. We call ourselves males, females, and…