The First Essay By a Politician That Is Actually Good

Almost everything written by politicians for public consumption falls somewhere on the spectrum of “generally correct, but tepid and bloodless” to “absolutely wrong and full of lies.” They are all varying degrees of disappointing. Until today!

John Dingell, 92 fuckin years old, served as a Michigan congressman for more than 50 years. Now he’s old and retired and doesn’t give a fuck. He’s gonna say what’s what. So he wrote a piece for the Atlantic about how to fix our broken political system. You should read it for yourself. We will just briefly note the things he says that are right: