The State of the Union
I love the American people. I love the American idea. I’m in awe of the American Constitution.
But man, have things gone off the rails over the past several decades.
Americans spend more on “health” “care” than any other nation at any point in history, yet are sicker, fatter, more anxious and depressed, and have more chronic illness than ever.
There’s a fertility crisis. Young couples have trouble making babies without medical treatment. Think about that. Making babies is critical to the survival of the species. Two generations that cannot make babies, and we’re wiped out. This should be an all-hands-on-deck emergency, but it’s not.
America has spent trillions of dollars they didn’t have to kill millions of people overseas, and there’s no sign it’s made the Americans safer or better off.
The American middle class has been squished. A family of four used to be able to buy a house and live a good life on one income. That’s impossible today.
US government debt is up from $16.6 trillion at the end of 2013 to $33.1 trillion at the end of 2023, doubling in ten years. If you include unfunded Medicare, social security, and pension liabilities you end up with about $166 trillion.
And that’s on top of all the taxes and fees paid to the government by citizens,corporations, and other taxpayers.
Where did all that money go?
Have you noticed a dramatic improvement in your life from this?
If you owned assets, I bet you did well with those.
But outside of that, I doubt it.
The bottom line is that something’s really wrong, and it’s getting worse.
Why Are We Putting Up with This?
How can all of this be happening, and we the people aren’t all pissed off at our elected officials for creating this mess, and all on the same team about fixing this?
I think there’s a range of answers.
Some people just aren’t seeing it.
The media is very selective in what they cover, and if the corporate media doesn’t say it, those people simply don’t see it. Or if they do see it somewhere on social media, they don’t believe it, because how could the media not cover it if it were true? Trust in the media is at an all time low, and there’s a reason why.
Some people see it, but they think that these problems are just super duper hard and that’s why it’s getting worse despite some very caring and honest and competent politicians' best efforts. Spoiler: They’re not. The solutions are simple and known.
Some people think it’s all because of the “other side” and if only “their side” was in power, then everything would be great. Spoiler: That’s how the blob keeps us fighting each other.
Some people think that our politicians are just really bad at their jobs. They’re trying but they’re just that dumb.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Which leads to the conclusion that there are some powerful dark forces who want things to be this way.
And they are bribing and blackmailing people at every level of society to serve their agenda, which includes making all of us sick, stupid, depressed, and busy fighting each other, so we don’t notice all their stealing and killing.
It’s sick, but it is what it is.
We have to face reality.
It’s not incompetence.
It’s malice.
It's about power and exploitation.
All the problems facing us have well known simple solutions. But the blob doesn't want our problems solved.
The blob likes them just the way they are, thank you very much.
The only thing they’d like is to get rid of that pesky free speech, so they wouldn’t get exposed as much. That damn constitution.
What Happens if We Don’t?
If we don’t wake up, grow up, and make change, things will only get worse.
In order to pay taxes and keep up with inflation, you must work. If the government takes about half of your income, that’s half of your life force energy taken from you at the threat of violence.
And although some of it does get used to build bridges and roads and provide essential services like police and firefighters, most of it is wasted or funneled to the blob’s friends.
But that’s not the worst part.
What’s worse is all the money that goes to make life worse for you and others. That makes you sicker, that kills innocent people here and abroad, that destabilizes regions, and many more problems that are made worse through the efforts of the government.
Think about that.
This is what’s at stake.
It’s like if you were 200 lbs overweight. That is a massive toll on your system. It's a weight that you have to carry around with every step you take. It causes metabolic dysfunction all over your body, which only makes you more overweight and more sick.
This is what the government is effectively doing to us all right now. And people are just going around like everything’s fine, and this is just the way it is. We have totally normalized the most corrupt, dysfunctional system ever to exist in the history of mankind.
We don’t even stop to realize things could be any different.
What would be possible if you didn’t have to carry this burden around?
If you didn’t have this sick and corrupt system leeching on your creative life force.
Think about that for a moment.
It’s wild!
I know all of this sounds a bit intense. And it is.
