What is Shocking, America? : The Reveal—A Presidency Engineered by Wealth, Not Leadership Before I go any further, let me acknowledge something openly: my voice here is not partisan . It is not rooted in who I like or dislike, nor in allegiance to a political party or ideology. It comes from five decades of living in this country , arriving here as an immigrant and watching my family’s future — my children, my grandchildren, my bloodlines — braid themselves into the fabric of American life. I am overwhelmed not by party politics, but by the psychological morass this nation has descended into. I do not write for trafficked clicks, attention, or accolades. I write because this moment reaches into the oldest layers of my ancestry — into the memory of enslaved people whose labor shaped the ground beneath my feet, into the stories of Indigenous nations whose presence I was taught too late to honor, into the generations who fought, marched, studied, and sacrificed to lift equal rights f...
