cberg wrote:
Humanaut wrote:
Added to the list of first world problems: The luxury of having nothing to fear but fear itself.
The prison system in America is obscene. Imprisoned or not, our populace has but a memory of private communication and actual personal freedoms. Citizens are treated as state property, the alphabet agencies and feds primary mission is abolishing the idea of personal sovereignty. We spend trillions of dollars forcing our profit-driven regime on all kinds of cultures when we haven't even bothered to house our whole population. There are almost 90 empty houses in America for every homeless or disenfranchised person and yet we continue spending trillions on weapons and election campaigns to choose between the political right or what has become center-right.
Of course! America is owned by the 1%ers. We are no longer a democratic republic. We are an oligarchy. Our rights and powers are being drained off quickly by the growing powers of the super-rich. They give us delicious bread, and wonderful circuses to keep us fat an amused, but we are no longer proud, and fit, and frisky. We are worried, fat, and, sitting down.
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Everything is falling.