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angrychair

(10,904 posts)
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 03:39 PM Saturday

Failure To Launch [View all]

We are living a lie. We still keep telling ourselves that some magical knight is going to swoop in and save us.

They are not.

In my humble opinion our nation is completely lost.
We have Republicans desperately wanting to put other human beings into concentration camps.

We have foreign born billionaires like Thiel and Musk, robbing our country blind and desperate to seize control of our wealth and of our people.

We have Democrats who appear more than willing to help both achieve they goals as they continue to say one thing in public but in the halls of Congress, behind closed doors, voting for bills like the recent Cryptocurrency bill that will allow billionaires and their corporations to rob us blind with unregulated fake money. Over a hundred Democrats voted to to give billionaires crypto scam artists free rein to fuck us all over. That vote was incredibly disgusting and disappointing.

It did open my eyes. It really isn't about politics. Its just about money and power. Until the majority of us realize this we are lost in the woods. We will continue to get screwed and they will continue to get rich.
I personally don't see any way out of this because our society is so locked in its obsession with obtaining wealth and power over others that society has all but lost its humanity.
I mean billionaires and politicians are paying ICE agents and the military pennies in comparison to their wealthy and for those pennies those soldiers are more than willing to hurt, torture or even kill anyone they are told to go after.

Right now our society is losing. We don't want want to believe that yet. Until we do we will continue to lose. Until society can except that we, we cannot change it.

To be clear I will still vote for Democrats and support Democrats and encourage people to support Democrats and vote for Democrats because it is always better than the alternative but I hold no illusion as to who is really pulling a lot of the real strings of power and it is not them. It is the billionaires, the billionaire people and corporations. They are the real enemy. Yea, that billionaire too. I don't care how nice they seem, how much they give to charity, how great their songs are or how great their film career is. They are everything that is wrong with our society and humanity. All of them.

Until we realize that things will only get worse.

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