Letter From a Young American

I am 23 years old, and in my conscious lifetime I have not seen an American President. I’m aware that while I have been alive, there have been people occupying the Oval Office and living in the White House. I’m aware that while I have been alive, there have been presidential elections, and I’ve even voted in a few of them. I’ve watched the debates and the stump speeches that accompanied those elections. I was in the crowd on the Mall in Washington D.C. on that cold January of 2001 when George Bush was inaugurated. So let me reiterate. In my lifetime I have yet to see an American President.

-SNIP-

I feel lied to. I feel deceived. I feel cheated. I feel robbed. I am sick and tired of a government that is not what it should be, not what it could be. I miss something I have never seen. I am angry and I am ready for a change. I am a young person in America.

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