ACCOUNTABILITY, AFFORDABILITY, DEMOCRACY_

Accountability, Affordability, Democracy.

The trinity of American collapse—and the seeds of its restoration

America’s Undoing

Jul 28, 2025

Thank you to everybody who’s been along for the ride so far. It’s not easy to look deep into the soul of America. Like you all, I’ve been watching the last six months with frustration, anger, despair, and hope. The last few weeks have been equal parts hope and despair for me. And I wanna talk about three elements that I think are the root of both of those things - hope and despair. Accountability. Affordability. Democracy. We have none of the three right now.

I’m going to get into more depth about all of them this week. This is to tee them up.

I believe Americans - those who vote and those who don’t - are looking for exactly these things, but they’re being told they can’t have them. People are yearning for community and togetherness, but they keep getting divided and separated. They keep being shown that everything they thought was solid about this country is cracking, cracked, or totally rotten.

Look, people see that accountability means nothing. From presidents to the wealthy, people can get away with nearly anything - genocide, sex trafficking, you name it. They’re told they live in the richest nation in the history of the world at its most affordable point in history, yet they’re struggling to get by and constantly anxious about their future, their kids’ future. Most of us never get a moment of economic rest.

And they’re constantly told they have to save a democracy that’s obviously broken. We get very few real choices when it comes to who represents us. There’s shenanigans one way or another - they push candidates out, one gets more coverage than another, one gets more money. The media lies about people without consequences. Districts get drawn by whoever’s in power. People have to buy their way into making our rules and laws, so everything gets designed for the rich and powerful.

People know they’re living through this. They’re not stupid. They’ve had to turn off and turn away just to survive. They can’t keep looking at the sunken eyes of Gaza’s children because it reminds them too much of their own powerlessness.

What I Want to Talk About This Week

I want to dig into each of these because of what we’re all seeing right now. We’re watching forced starvation in Gaza with US backing - people are dying while we fund it. We’ve got both Trump and Bill Clinton called out for being in Epstein’s contact book, but somehow that story just disappears.

I’m seeing people in the party trying to pivot to affordability, which I get, but you can’t solve the affordability problem if you won’t acknowledge how deep and widespread it really is. And now we’ve got Dems planning to gerrymander their own states without saying gerrymandering should be banned entirely.

What I believe is that by taking on these three elements as the unified issues they are, we have a chance to come together to fix our trajectory. I’m doing my best to make the case that this road leads somewhere dystopian—somewhere we do not want to be.

This is my sense of how people are feeling, but I don’t know if it matches what you’re feeling. I want to write about my theory on each of these this week - here, on YouTube, in live streams, on TikTok - and I want your feedback. What are you seeing? What’s weighing on you? How do these assessments land with you? Hit me up in the comments.