I guess I’m looking for any sign of hope. Does anyone believe anything is actually going to change?
The choices we have for government office officials are almost always atrocious. I can’t see the house or the senate actually giving a fuck enough to enact any change pertaining to cost of living, wages, cost of healthcare, insurance being tied to occupation, etc.
I’m pretty much resigned to the fact the US is just a ruse. Those in power designed the entire system to oppress and divide the majority.
We’re unable to organize effectively (as they are in Paris) because our country is so large. When we want to show up to protest, we can’t afford to take off work because we need to make rent. We can’t afford to go to doctors so we get sick, which only further pushes us from organizing and protesting, and keeps us poor because healthcare is so damn expensive. If we somehow actually can afford a day off work and somehow make it to a protest, police militarize and attack us. If we wind up in jail for protesting, we lose our jobs. The billionaires are literally in the pockets of every politician, so they’re never going to be taxed. And let’s face it, that’s where the nation’s money is going. Where our wages are going. Straight to the pockets of these people so they can horde it and take it out of the rotation. Add on the whole division of the nation due to politicians using religion to separate us and we’re just fucked.
We’re intentionally oppressed. I’m a millennial and we were told the only way to succeed was if we went to college. Now, because of that scam, we’re immersed in so much debt that our lives are effectively not our own. We can’t afford to have kids, buy a house, have surgery, etc. All we can legitimately afford to do is go to work. And I’m making much more than the minimum wage, mind you. According to the poverty line, I make enough for a five person household. But I am barely fucking surviving.
There is no way to progress in modern day America. There’s no real way to affect change. The American government has designed itself to be a brilliant and evil power that has somehow figured out that it can work its population to death for literally nothing in return.