When I was talked into running for state representative in 2016, I decided to conduct my campaign by writing about problems that most people don’t even realize that we have. The problems behind the problems.

That campaign turned into this book. It contains thirty-two (32!) posts that are still relevant today.

We’re all tired of hearing — and participating in — political conversations that generate so much heat while shedding so little light. This book makes a proposal based on three jokes to help people have political conversations.

What would happen if Republicans started acting like a political party, and took seriously the statement that has been at the heart of their own party platform, essentially unchanged, since 1854?

Checks that were supposed to work against oppressive government from the outside — the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box — have become supports that prop up oppressive government from the inside.