Vestal: Fast-forward to 2028 prez election

Columnist Shawn Vestal/SR writes a letter to his son, 12 years into the future:

Nov. 7, 2028

To my son,

I write to you from the other side of 12 years ago, and I am deeply anxious about what the country will look like when you read this, on Election Day 2028, when you have the chance to cast your first vote for the president.

How’s the weather? Not unbearably hot, I hope? Have the jetpacks shown up yet? How has the second wave of trickle-down economics worked out? Are newspapers hanging in there? Has the pendulum of progress on civil and equal rights swung back in the direction of justice?

I very much hope so. Because, here on this side of these 12 years, it is just days after our president-elect named the former chief of a website that peddles white supremacy as his top strategist – and just days after some jackhole painted a racial slur on the side of a children’s center named for Martin Luther King Jr. here in Spokane. More here.

Question: What do you think the state of our politics will be like in 12 years?