We live in a country that pays untold billions export terror overseas but is unwilling to provide health care to its own people. And we are forced to own cars to get to pointless menial jobs that pay just enough table scraps to afford to exist in some overpriced soulless corporate apartment complex and sustain ourselves with ultra-processes crap masquerading as food.
People defend it by pointing out how “prosperous” the economy is compared to other countries, but the same could be said of serfs and peasants in Victorian England; that didn’t make their situation any less desperate. The working class here in the US is finding the cost of existence more and more unbearable every day, notwithstanding the cheap arguments of neoliberal apologists.
Meanwhile nobody seems to care. What gives? Why don’t the people demonstrate to demand at least social democratic reforms?