Failure

 I am a failure. Trying to explain to my wife and fifteen year old why the National Debt is important ends with my daughter screening at me running from the room in tears and my wife telling me I sound like a crazy conspiracy theory person. Believing in freedom and Capitalism makes me the person who doesn’t care about people - and because I’m middle class and not a successful entrepreneur am a fool to believe America is still a place of opportunity. 

I am a fool. And since my wife and daughters do not think of me as successful then I am not. If my daughter thinks I don’t care about people then I must not. If I do not think of myself as successful then I am not.