RE: https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/116850829686494006
I’m in the same place as my beautiful pocket friend, Ricki. America’s 250th birthday, under this regime, has finally ripped away the gauze overlay that hid the real rotten machinery underpinning our entire failing empire.
We are a country where 14 MILLION children go hungry every day, and we have billionaires who boast about not paying taxes. And they’re still alive. A million Americans are unhoused, 50,000 of them are people who served in the armed forces. They offered their lives for this country, we used them, and sent them to the gutters.
We have crushing medical debt, our infrastructure is failing, our education system is dead last in “first world” countries.
We have failed our citizens and elevated our failsons to the point of being “too big to fail”. I think maybe we should start over, this time without the baked in racism and capitalism.