The United States is a fake Gucci bag. It’s a Jucci bag. I am horrified that our government continues to fund building a border wall. We have children, AMERICAN children, who do not even have their basic needs met. They are getting abused, hungry, can’t afford lunch, homeless, impoverished, lacking healthcare, lacking quality education. That is where this border money needs to be going. Teacher vacancies are at an all-time high. Kids don’t want to go to medical school anymore. The entire country has a social services deficit. Social workers and nurses are needed everywhere, and fewer are going to school for that. But, yes, please waste money on a fucking wall. To keep the “dangerous” people out? To keep the desperate people out? We have the highest gun death rate in the entire industrialized world, and since our rates have SKYROCKETED since 2018, by now we could be in the top 5 or 10 in the world overall. Domestic terrorism is alive and well. Poverty, homelessness, gun violence, social services being cut, we want to raise the retirement age, Medicaid and Medicare are being cut, social security probably won’t even exist soon. BUT YES, PLEASE SPEND MONEY keeping the BAD PEOPLE out. Fucking spare me.
Our own damn kids don’t get taken care of. Child abuse hasn’t decreased in years. The child welfare system is a fucking disaster. But if we spend money on that. If we spend money on the CHILDREN. It is socialism. However, our country continues to give billions to the rich, corporations and wall street. And apparently, building walls. It is disgraceful. Don’t complicate this. Don’t make us feel like we “don’t understand”. Just STOP. Stop wasting time, money and all other resources on the damn wall. Just fucking stop.
Since everything just seems to get worse for the 98%, give it a few decades. Maybe we will finally run out of clean water. I guess our grandkids will just have to deal with it. By then, will we be back in Medieval times, and the Rich will throw lettuce heads at the rest of us occasionally? That is most likely insulting to the Medieval times because if you live in the USA now and are not well off enough to live a nice life, have a home, transportation, food, water, social support, a job, it is a fucking fiery hellscape of suffering, apathy and greed.
The “left” love to compete. Who is the “most woke”? Who is the smartest? Who knows the most history? Who has read all the documents? This is exactly why 2024 is going to bitch slap us into oblivion and we fucking deserve it. The conservatives stick together. The Republicans stick together. The other side, the left, the blue, the purple, the socialist, the liberal, the progressive, the democrats, the liberal independents, we all just can’t seem to get our shit together.
In some states, when you move there, and apply for a driver’s license, you’ll get your voter registration card within a few days. You’ll get a voter guide and ballot maybe one to two days after that. How voting should be for the whole country. Nah, we can’t do that. We can’t keep our citizens informed. We need them to stay ignorant but then bitch and moan when they don’t vote. It took me weeks to get a voter registration card in Kansas. Had to send a picture of my passport, it was fucking ridiculous.
In the USA, we love to buy votes and gerrymander and what not. Honestly, the 2% should just vote, they decide everything anyway. The working class need to just accept their place. Strangely, I find that many of us love to compete and see who works the most! Who takes the least vacations? Who stays late? You do know your job does not care, right? They love it when you don’t take days off. They’ll fire you just the same either way. When something messes with their profits, it doesn’t matter if you’ve worked yourself to the bone and taken zero vacations.
It’s all been ingrained into us. Hardworking, real Americans, we work long hours with short pay and we are PROUD! It’s all been orchestrated for us.
The rich love to distract the rest of us with things like this and other issues—the border wall, gender, sex, etc—while we fight over pennies and talk about which ones of us “deserve more money”. The ones who make $25/hour need to stay mad at the $15/hour people, and they in turn must stay mad at the $7.25/hour people. Cuz we all “earned” that extra money. Keeps us distracted while the rich steal the elections, the resources and rake in the cash. But they are “job creators”, so that means we need to bend over and take it. Obviously. Many people have this need to be “better” than people. So even though the minimum wage should be around $20/hour, we have been trained to treat the “unskilled” workers like garbage. So of course, they can’t make as much as the working class, paycheck to paycheck grinders. $15/hour is less than $30,000 after taxes a year. A FUCKING YEAR. It is nothing in this economy, especially if you have a family. The price of TVs and entertainment will decrease though, so once again we get distracted. We can’t buy our medicine or food, but hey at least we can stream Netflix—while these companies rake in millions but bitch about perhaps making 1 less million and then blame it on COVID. Lies. Greed. Bullshit.
Then another election goes by, a rich, white guy wins again, and we keep fighting amongst ourselves as our liberty is slowly being stripped away. Over and over and over and over again.
I had to leave a progressive blogging site recently and I deleted all my submissions. I was just so sick of the readers just ACHING to point out every little fucking thing in the blog that just wasn’t “good enough” or “right enough” or “liberal enough” or “woke enough”. Who fucking knows. Pointless nonsense that kills people’s spirit and then once again, the tight conservative crew, take another election.
Since Obama won, racism doesn’t exist.
Since Biden beat Trump, classism doesn’t exist. Which doesn’t even make sense, since Biden is rich too. All politicians are. But hey, we didn’t let the rich racist rapist win AGAIN, right?
Just more bullshit. But just enough to keep the 98% distracted enough to truly believe we are “ALL BORN EQUAL”. Some of us DESERVE MORE. Our enemy is the rich, not each other. The 98% run this country. Every job has value.
Remember when Obama was mocked for being a community organizer? Someone who wanted to work for their community was mocked. Remember when politicians were supposed to SERVE THE PEOPLE? NOT THE RICH. THE PEOPLE. Obama was also criticized for being inexperienced. Since we now have let a fucking rapist clown win, literally anyone can be president. And 2024—these are the choices? Again? I can’t imagine Generation Z giving a fuck about voting right now. I don’t blame them at all. We don’t teach high schoolers how to vote or get involved. The young people will be criticized for not voting again, despite not actually being provided the tools to do so. Another rich, old, white guy will win. If Trump wins, dear sweet baby Jesus, I can’t even deal with thinking about that.
Remember—we let kids die every single day from preventable problems. Every day. Every, fucking day. The USA. The “richest” country. We hog ¼ of the entire globe’s resources and we can’t even guarantee basic human needs for every child. Truly disgusting. Shameful. Disgraceful.