America Is Dead

America is not a democracy anymore, not even a constitutional republic but an oligarchy.  We are a ONE PARTY nation: the party of the rich.  They've proven it time and time again and it doesn't matter if you're conservative or liberal.  If you're middle or working class, no administration has ever been on your side nor have they ever worked for you. That's why politicians leave office as millionaires. Heck, that's why you have to be a millionaire just to run for office even at the local level.  Whether you vote Republican or Democrat, you're still keeping the same handful of wealthy elites in power.  Our government leaders are Bezos, Zuckerberg, Gates and their cronies who bought and paid for every member in congress regardless of what side of the aisle they're sitting on.  Biden is just a beady eyed marionette good at taking orders.  If our  Republican leadership truly cared, imagine what they could have accomplished when they had a congressional majority and yet didn't.  We still don't have a secure border or immigration reform or affordable healthcare or an updated power grid, etc. Now look up how many times they've had the majority.

The Party, as they should now be known, control our lives from the media we consume to the history we learn in school.  They decide who gets to be on the internet (notice net neutrality is no longer discussed), who gets to own their own business, who gets to publicly express an opinion, who gets to fish for Pete's sake.  You have to have government permission to FISH.  What have we done about this?  

The Party can now openly admit their crimes because they know society is too gutless to do anything more than complain on social media until we're censored off (which we'll also do very little if anything about), sign stupid petitions no one of consequence will ever recieve let alone honor and hope our vote still matters which it must not as we now have documented evidence of election fraud and an understanding that our justice system DOES NOT CARE enough even to properly investigate.  

Sorry, but why were we upset the capitol got raided again?

We should, like the anti war protesters of old, be camped out on the White House lawn and in front of the capitol angrily voicing our grievances right now and should stay there 24/7 heckling every last government official we see until they are forced to obey the will of the people.  Take advice from Maxine Waters and run them out restaurants.  Rally in the streets.  But we won't.  We'll either be condemning or making fun of the handful who do.

Black Lives Matter was violent af and won a Nobel for it.  How much is keeping your freedom worth?

You want a secure border?  Grab your construction buddies and go build some wall.  They ban church service?  Hold church service in front of the governor's mansion.  Better yet, in a Walmart.  If they strike down the second amendment, go to the black market.  Check labels and pay a little extra to buy American made.  Don't just tweet #Boycott something.  Actually boycott it.  Pressure your city and state governments because how they govern will affect you the most.  And by pressure, I mean more than just cursing out the random person who answers the office phone. I mean park yourself in front of your state capitol with your signs and scream.

When Antifa was burning our neighborhoods and attacking people and The Party refused to protect us, what did we do?  We cowered just like we're doing now and just like we're going to keep doing.  Face it.  The America we have in our heads, the one that kicked the tyrannical English monarchy out and was a beacon of hope and freedom for millions, doesn't exist anymore because the people who did those things, who made America great, don't exist anymore either.  We don't have a bad ass military.  We have a military that doesn't know what bathroom to use.

We're too comfortable in our gilded cages, too dependent on our oligarchs to resist.  Our creature comforts have wussified us.

Revolution means the lights could go out.  Our smart phones may not work.  No Facebook.  We could die. We're never having another Revolution.  Stop threatening one.  Stop dreaming of your state seceding.  Your governor wants federal money. 

We're on our own. The empire is dying and the best we can do is go out complaining.

Who's willing to prove me wrong?  I fear there just isn't enough of us willing to take risks anymore.  There's no one willing to go to war to save America.  Too dangerous.  Too uncomfortable.  Of course we'll wear the masks.  Of course we'll take the vaccine. Of course we'll buy the insurance and the licenses.  Of course we'll pay the taxes and the tolls.  Of course we'll get in the cattle car.

America is dead and she didn't die with a bang.  She didn't go out fighting.  She went willingly.

Sad, but true.