We have the most effective government in the history of the world, and I can prove it by listing the results we get. Our politics is broken. Our government continues to function despite it — for now.
"I'm just a bureaucrat, standing in front of a country, asking you to love the government, while half of you are holding chainsaws ready to murder it and the other half pity me — black eye, broken ribs, still defending the monster. Writing, but you don't know him like I do." — Cheryl Jean Kelley, from her essay, Morning Mika
“I retired from a twenty-year federal career at 47 due to a rare neuromuscular disease — LGMD, titin gene variant — that was only correctly diagnosed because of the Human Genome Project led by the National Institutes of Health
At 50, with no publishing connections, no platform, and no literary history, I started writing to explain the government that saved my life to the country that is dismantling it. I was starting from nothing. Except perhaps my work experience in government. And it turned out that was everything.”