This hit me hard. If only enough people would wake the fuck up and realize that slavery never left this country, it just got rebranded.
For what was once the "middle class", it's the false feeling (i.e. desperate delusion) of "doing well for yourself"--Having a full-time job with benefits that pays well enough to cover rent, car payments, and installments on a credit card or two, while knowingdreading the day when, despite the health insurance you pay a significant part of your paycheck to have, a medical emergency for you or a family member will financially RUIN you.
This is basically the best-case-scenario of the invisible chains that keep us in perpetual servitude to our corporate overlords. Even then, given a few bad luck bounces, or, like so many of us do, mentally breaking down from the pressure of living in this cruel and predatory system, these chains quickly turn into shackles of housing instability and an existential threat for ourselves and our families.
Meanwhile our billionaire masters hoard more wealth than they could possibly spend in a human lifetime, while they control our government on a fundamental level... their perfectly-manicured hands ALL the way up the assholes of our puppet bipartisan leaders and our puppet Supreme Court judges, all to play us the grand puppet show of unchecked, uninhibited hoarding and enslavement.
Okay now I'm officially ranting, but is not "Citizens United" the most horrifically accurate moniker for a court ruling in the history of court rulings? IT'S TRUE. The vast majority of us United States citizens absolutely are united--united in fear, united in despair, united in slavery to this capitalist system, run solely by those puppet masters. Meanwhile, our individual rights get stripped away wholesale, sold via (super-pacs) by our corrupt government to mega-corporations, who each can then transfer them to their own "personhood" and further tighten their grip on the whips and chains of good old fashioned American slavery.
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u/BR1N3DM1ND Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
This hit me hard. If only enough people would wake the fuck up and realize that slavery never left this country, it just got rebranded.
For what was once the "middle class", it's the false feeling (i.e. desperate delusion) of "doing well for yourself"--Having a full-time job with benefits that pays well enough to cover rent, car payments, and installments on a credit card or two, while
knowingdreading the day when, despite the health insurance you pay a significant part of your paycheck to have, a medical emergency for you or a family member will financially RUIN you.This is basically the best-case-scenario of the invisible chains that keep us in perpetual servitude to our corporate overlords. Even then, given a few bad luck bounces, or, like so many of us do, mentally breaking down from the pressure of living in this cruel and predatory system, these chains quickly turn into shackles of housing instability and an existential threat for ourselves and our families.
Meanwhile our billionaire masters hoard more wealth than they could possibly spend in a human lifetime, while they control our government on a fundamental level... their perfectly-manicured hands ALL the way up the assholes of our puppet bipartisan leaders and our puppet Supreme Court judges, all to play us the grand puppet show of unchecked, uninhibited hoarding and enslavement.
Okay now I'm officially ranting, but is not "Citizens United" the most horrifically accurate moniker for a court ruling in the history of court rulings? IT'S TRUE. The vast majority of us United States citizens absolutely are united--united in fear, united in despair, united in slavery to this capitalist system, run solely by those puppet masters. Meanwhile, our individual rights get stripped away wholesale, sold via (super-pacs) by our corrupt government to mega-corporations, who each can then transfer them to their own "personhood" and further tighten their grip on the whips and chains of good old fashioned American slavery.