Have you seen the poor people themselves cheering for union busting, believing the boss is on their side, it’s not just maddening. It’s tragic. You’re watching someone cheer for their own chains. Some of it is ignorance, yes. Some of it is fear. But a lot of it is the result of decades of cultural programming: through media, churches, talk radio, Facebook memes, right-wing pastors, and Fox News—where Sunday school and gun shows blur into one authoritarian fever dream.

This isn’t just economic collapse. It’s psychological occupation.

You asked something that matters more than anything:

Did it ever make sense or have hope? Who was a worthy example?

There were moments. There were people.

Jimmy Carter, as you said, wasn’t perfect. But he was real. He believed that decency mattered. That humility wasn’t weakness. He didn’t profit off the presidency. He built houses. He farmed his own peanuts. He lived modestly and served without bitterness. Compared to today’s fame-hungry, soundbite-chasing politicians, he looks like a ****** saint.

FDR had the guts to take on the banks and monopolies. He created Social Security, the WPA, the right to unionize. He didn’t fix the whole machine, but he gave people tools to survive the storm.

Eugene Debs sat in prison for defending workers' rights and still ran for president because he believed that the working class was more than cannon fodder or cheap labor. He believed in dignity.

Nina Turner, AOC, Bernie Sanders you can agree or disagree with their politics, but they’re not bought. They show up and take heat because they believe regular people should have a seat at the table. They are worthy examples in a system rigged to destroy people like them.

But here’s the heartbreaking truth you’ve already said:

"Some people keep looking for some glimmer, some savior..."

There is no savior. There’s just  " US "  the people. Well, the ones without the guns and the Kevlar masks and the bunkers, anyway.

And right now, the people are broken, misled, and exhausted. The infrastructure of hope unions, education, affordable housing, healthcare, even shared truth is shredded staggering, hiding, tuning out  bloodied and ran down.

So we are left with this: tuning out  or suicide.
  Pill dulled rage that may not  remember what was lost.
Grief that mourns what will never be.
And the painful clarity of knowing too much. But a child could see.

What do we do with that? That’s the real question. When the pageantry of democracy is hollow, when politicians are mascots for billionaires, when the courts are cartoon villain puppets in a morality play gone wrong… what is there to fight for  when we don't even have say over our own bodies or the size of our own families !

Maybe it starts by bearing witness. By refusing to pretend things are fine. By shouting the truth  because someone else needs to hear it and yes  all day every day.

If you happen to be like me, and let's hope you are. You’re not alone in this anger.
And you’re not crazy.
You  better ******  be awake.
Cause yes that still matters. Even in the dark.
Especially in this the beginning of the darkest of   dark.
It hasn't even been 6 months  yet.
Just wait.  Or don't...

People keep looking for some glimmer, some savior, some return to decency. But the mechanisms that used to create progress labor movements, political will, civic infrastructure have been gutted and co-opted.    Some people have been brainwashed on the idea that. The unions, which were the only group that would fight for them, are somehow not worth the dues. And to make it even more terrifying? The corporations literally come in and physically attack the people who are trying to explain the benefits of unionizing. And in some red states, some Bible entrenched ridiculousness. The poor dumb  bible thumping  cousin ******* pieces of **** is that work for  literally 7 $ an hour pennies ; actually fall for it and support the attacks. Without realizing that without the unions, the workers would literally have nothing. No sick leave, no maternity leave, nothing ! Just fired and replaced with the next G.E.D. or less monkey in bass pro shops hat.

Did it ever make sense or have hope?  Who was a worthy example?

Carter literally built houses with his own hands after leaving office. Compare that to today’s football roofie ****** disguised as politicians. They can’t even build a coalition without corporate puppeteers pulling the strings and writing it all for them.  Literal plastic brainless ****** with guns that ****** puppies. Fox News. Saturday morning correspondence with more alcohol than blood.

Those who did  try, like Obama, faced a political meat grinder filibustered, obstructed, neutered at every turn. The Koch brothers, and those like them, created a political machine so deep-rooted and effective that legislation never even gets to the floor unless it’s pre-approved by corporate interest.

And now? The tools of government Congress, the Senate, the courts are treated like uncensored  props in a full blown  Clarence Thomas Winnebago  farce, while executive orders become magic wands to force through personality-driven  megalomaniac riot inciting, dogmatic fear and disgust as  absolute idiotic  rule.

Paying workers a living wage?    Who are you kidding . ? That's Too expensive.
Better to ship jobs overseas and rely on foreign countries to make everything.
Then spend billions on policing and military to keep people in line and enforce that system through fear, sanctions, and retaliation if not a complete puppet government like what collapsed under Mubarak in Egypt, El Salvador, Panama, etc. No, no  convince  them they can pray away the gay and that cigarettes equal home  runs. Tell em to get jobs as greeters at Wal-Mart and flipping burgers. Tell em social security may be turned into a lottery they can retire on. Better yet let em die on job like the Chinese kids.

Look .without the machines, the factories, or the skilled people to run them, the U.S. economy is hollowed out. The ability to produce real things on its own soil once the foundation of its power is gone, sold off piece by piece like in Russia after  "communism"  collapsed.
Empty buildings in a month . What remains is a service economy built on debt, finance, and consumer consumption that can’t sustain itself.  Or change a flat tire on its own.  You better fuckn learn to speak Mandarin , Cause Russia can't even beat lil ole Ukraine.

Without the machines, the factories, or the skilled people to run them, the U.S. economy is hollowed out. The ability to produce real things on its own soil once the foundation of its power is gone, sold off piece by piece.
What remains is a service economy built on debt, finance, and consumer consumption that can’t sustain itself .

Then this idiot wants to round up and deport all of the illegal workers that are willing to work for pennies on the dollar, the ones that keep the very core of the country barely even functioning. Who else is gonna do those jobs? Those people have a movement and they call it please take our jobs The title alone says enough. Nobody is gonna go there and take those jobs. And without them, our entire. Government backed and supported agricultural system completely fails and we all starve.
We cannot afford to compete. We can't afford to compete with China. Free child slave labor. We can't afford to compete with Mexico or anyone else. Our produce would result in lettuce being $15 a head and a bag of apples. You would have to get a third mortgage. It's all subsidized and those subsidies were supposed to go to mom and pop farms, but instead they went to mega corporations who didn't even need the handout. But that's what happens when you let corporations literally write the laws and walk them into the lobbyists handcuffed to the wrist with all the papers pre signed. All they need is to rubber stamp it and boom it's done.

Tell her dolls are for rich kids
who know which bathroom to use
Just make sure my kid gets one last look
at her broken doll before you bury her
beneath the words “America First.”
And remember to tell your neighbor and your Sunday school teacher that  "law, truth, and empathy are liberal weapons to be destroyed."



He’s on TV again.
Cotton candy on his head, all sweaty
as he ******* into the Fox News mic.

Screaming about how
all lesbian Shakespeare is killing Ukrainians,
and perceived Marxist parades must be stopped
regardless of the cost.

Which is eclipsed
by the cost of printer ink alone
for his indictment list.

Parades
like that’s what broke
the back of our family business.

Haitians ate all his pets
except the ones he kept locking out at night
like Eric.

A few of us used to build things.
Now we stack overdue bills
like firewood,
and pray winter doesn’t come
hard and early
like a night with Stormy Daniels.

But it wasn’t the "genius" tariffs, right?
It was that huge avalanche of fentanyl
just pouring in by the second  from Canada like a tsunami.
That whole less than 1%  surely justifies ALL  this.

Not the trade war
we didn’t and , could never survive,
not the refunds that never came  or will
just the drag queens,
book bans,
and some gay frogs
plotting to eat RFK’s brainworms.

Now we chew on sloppy Republican soup
made from fluoride-free water
and stolen restaurant salt packs,
with boiled apology.

We **** in the Denny's stalls
to make America great again
'cause they stopped putting out napkins on the tables,
and restrooms cost 50 cents to use.
That's 48 cents more than we have.

As I drag my exhausted kid by the bone thin arm blood trails
down the sidewalk again
we have nowhere to go and the hypocrite churches won't let us in looking and smelling like this.
But there he is constantly  on T.V.,
still crying onstage,
still selling slave labor made hats
and gold-plated Bibles,
still fuming about “woke” this
and “cancelled” that,
while people like me
can’t afford a hotel room or bread.

But sure.
Tell me again
how the poets ruined the global economy.
Tell my daughter
why her doll rations
were her patriotic sacrifice.

Tell her
this is greatness.

Or just take her out to the ole gravel pit
and give her the Kristi Noem special.

Can I please be next?
Behind him,
a choir of bootlickers
chanting “freedom”
between their unpaid  child support payments and bar tabs.

I can't feed my family
with a “Praise Jesus, AR-15 Free Christmas” postcard,
but thanks for the sentiment...

oh, and you addressed it
to the 10-year-old
that was gunned down
in front of his swingset,
who still couldn't read
while trying to scrounge through the dumpster
after you cut his school lunch program.

Please give me the ole Putin KGB special.
I know you can.
He's your hero, after all , he got you elected twice
you studied his every move.

NRA me, please.
It'd be the most humane thing
any of these sock puppets has yet to do.

We’ve gone from watching
the FBI torch " nut ball" compounds
to  our "elected' leaders  loading  more rounds,
Launching free AR-15 Christmas cards
as dead kids pile up
in  old school yards
( Remember these are your " Russian "  elected officials.)
no tampering or hampering.  Sure sure those russian hackers weren't Trump/Putin backers.
somehow
toothless, brainwashed Christians
are cheering it on.
with Trump signs planted
next to flags
on their lawn.
Hey, be quiet  Apprentice re runs are on.
it's a real show  you know. No scripts and real consequence. Not fake tv and. arranged sequence.
Jesus and the tooth fairy too.
Santa Claus is JD  Vance and boy does he have something for you !

the  gun nuts touting the  2nd amendment for profit
claiming  trump will make anything "great again"
are scary as ****.
and chock full of sin.

we used to shut ‘em down
and slaughter them without a frown
in big brutal fires.
The ATF 's  ******* desires.

NOW ?
they run the senate.
and they run the house.
And we have to hide away  quietly as a  little mouse.

The whiplash between Waco’s murderous  inferno
and today’s political climate
is one of the most jarring contradictions
in recent American history.
All charred and blistery.

What was once seen as a
dangerous, cultish, fringe,
now is YouTube-cleansed and repeated
like' The Apprentice '  for binge, binge, binge.

Now bunker builders and bullet hoarders
are wearing their cheap Sunday suits
and writing our educational and world health care policies like cheap money grubbing prostitutes.

The same archetype that got
flattened by our prayer backed tanks and flames
now sits on oversight committees, playing monopoly games
drooling over their own plastic daughters
and fake big-*** Matt Gaetz-sized *******,
waving  the pocket  Constitution and envying prostitution,
proclaiming  themselves
"patriots and worse.  What did  the average American do  to deserve this curse.."

that shift
from siege to Senate From Insurrection to handed out pill *******.
is terrifying.  And to whom are we now supposed to be relying ?

And Marjorie Taylor Greene...
look at her face.
Horrifying. No denying.

What happened at Waco
wasn’t just a tragedy,
it was a signpost,
haunted by ***** Jim Morrison wannabe ghost.

A moment where the government said:
“this is the line.”
but a lil fire will be just fine.

but what happens
when the line itself becomes   the  joke,
a guillotine for all ,  
polished and meant to be seen.

The same ideologies
that once earned a militarized raid
now cozy up with national leadership fat in the shade.
and Sunday school worship trade?

that’s not evolution
that’s a metastasis.
and every tithe helps it persist.

Why was McCarthy so adamant? So scared not because like them he "cared".
Because he knew the Bolsheviks were
(and always have been)
right.

It’s clear to see
in black and white. You have no right to fight.

****** gun cults, ( no animal sticks around for 15 rounds)
Racial grievance and white hate backlash , tired of all the blame. Yet it buries all the same.
pseudo-religious authoritarianism Christo fascism !

They’ve rebranded themselves
their ignorance  and hate and its sadly too late.
Now we starve from Tariffs and wait to die, homeless and plague ridden . The revolution will not be televised   or hidden.
Its a political platform,
not  hollow threats. Roe vs. Wade  bye bye.

No regrets,
doubling and tripling down,
new tariffs to paint the orange clown.  Your body   Ha!
Our  choice,  You never have had a vote against the corporatocracy or a voice.

and the brown shirts are not hiding anymore.
they will come drag you out your OWN front door.

Right  now they’re holding rallies.
they’re writing new laws.
and sharpening old G.O.P.  claws.

and it’s not just absurd.
it’s a kind of national amnesia.

We’ve gone from watching
the FBI torch " nut ball" compounds
to  our "elected' leaders  loading  more rounds,
Launching free AR-15 Christmas cards
as dead kids pile up
in  old school yards
( Remember these are your " Russian "  elected officials.)
no tampering or hampering.
somehow
toothless, brainwashed Christians
are cheering it on.
with Trump signs planted
next to flags
on their lawn.

despair and lunacy
and the only honest language is buried.

That cognitive dissonance
isn’t just personal , it's deadly
it’s starving kids
and cutting school lunches.

it’s systemic,
endemic,
and we will die
in the next pandemic.

this world,
and its Xi JingPing,
Putin,
Elon ***** rocket leaders
don’t deserve our obedience.
let alone respect.

we will see the neglect
in retrospect.
when Trump refuses to leave office
and they come to your door to collect.

starts like always
with banning books.
easier than street fires
where everyone looks.

but same result.
same intellectual assault.
and insult.

and openly racist attacks
with guns and party rhetoric
jammed in our backs.

our people,
and their homes,
and at their jobs.
turn us into fat, greasy, brainless
dollar store candy slobs.

teach the young Republicans
to hate and attack
the gays,

the frogs,
the fluoride water.
it’s all their fault
anyways.

transgender people
openly assaulted
with no remorse,
no compassion.
steal and stock up
on rations.

“America, America,
God shed His grace on thee…”
…and sold bibles,
and golden shoes,
and cardboard N-F-T…

gospel turned grift,
Jesus’s greatest gift.

patriotism turned cosplay,
action now
no oversight, no delay.

P.T.A fake dignity  traded in
for airbrushed
A.I. ******* fantasy
NFTs of  their hot jew  Messiah
with abs and a gun.
all for *** luck Sunday  family fun.

Family hunted in public
for being different
and  those detaining
call it
“freedom.”

Free to buy more crap
you don’t need
and can’t afford.
taught to swipe and ignore
and greedily hoard.

America, America…
God shed His grace on thee…