WASHINGTON D.C. – United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen announced in a press conference Monday that America’s stockpile of inflection points has been critically depleted. The past six years of political and racial turmoil has forced the country to reckon with it’s identity at an unprecedented rate. On the current trajectory, the nation is projected to be completely out of inflection points by 2025. If that happens, Americans will be unable to make choices regarding their own values or beliefs.
The federal government has traditionally used inflection points to prevent political division from boiling over and causing undo societal disruption. Known as “the great arbiters”, they have definitively settled key political disputes and solved America’s many identity crises. For example, inflection points were utilized to pass the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 which famously ended racism in America.
The run-up to the 2016 election saw America faced with unprecedented issues ranging from immigration to election integrity. Unfortunately, after an inflection point is used, a period roughly long enough to fill one chapter of a high school history textbook must pass before another can be introduced. In the time since, America has decided on a few key foreign policy issues and Bill Cosby’s guilt. Even so, the amount of conflict continues to outpace the number of points. Monday’s press conference gave us a glimpse at a very different America. One where people disagree with each other and where the spontaneous synchronization of human opinion will be replaced by political discourse. The House of Representatives is in the process of forming a special committee to address the shortage.