It seems our wonderful "overlords" on both sides of the political isle still don't get what everyone is furious this week; they're blind to how the system has completely failed us.
The last straw is being loaded on to the camel's back and it's about to break.
Most of us don't care about Trump's past, the embarrassing thing AOC said, or how much money Nancy Pelosi has made in her career through insider trading. We don't care about Hollywood drama, the next movie being released, the sports scores, or the other bread-and-circus distractions. That's why those businesses are slowly failing.
If you're paying attention, we're WAY beyond that as a country now. More than half of the U.S. is in desperation mode.
They can't afford the basics anymore. They watch as they're priced out of everything whether that be cars, rent, utilities, food, insurance, property taxes etc. They struggle with the basics, all while they perceive H-1B visa holders and immigrants (legal and illegal) taking the jobs they're desperate to have just to survive. They're getting crushed from the wage stagnation and lack of employment versus the past 5 years of high inflation that's never coming down.
We're tired of watching billions of dollars go to countries and causes for things we don't care about that don't affect our way of life in any meaningful way. No one wants to see help going to others when so many here feel they need the help? "Where's OUR help?!" they're screaming.
EBT and SNAP freeloaders eat like kings and queens, snapping up amounts of food most of us can't even imagine to afford, while many Americans live paycheck-to-mouth just to feed themselves. They see illegal immigrants get free housing, food, and healthcare, paid for by our taxes, while the people receiving all these giveaways mock those of us footing the bill and grinding just to stay afloat.
Crime is through the roof, even from our politicians, and it seems no one is held accountable for ANYTHING anymore. The everyday criminals are out here raping women in the streets, stabbing people and stealing anything that not nailed down. They've been arrested and released hundreds of times with no meaningful repercussions or reform, only to finally murder someone to put them in national news after it's too late. It seems there's no end in sight and worst of all, it seems the politicians and judges are turning a blind eye or even enabling to happen, yet we see very few in the current administration doing anything about it.
College is completely unaffordable. The loans people are saddled with are soul-crushing, yet all we hear about this week are the 600,000 Chinese students paying exorbitant prices to treat our education system like a cash cow, even though our universities already receive hundreds of billions in subsidies from our tax dollars. Education standards have dropped through the floor. People leave the system with worthless degrees, they have no ability to do basic math yet somehow are also carrying a lifetime of debt. All this while indoctrinating these kids to hate their country, promote socialism and revel in violence against half of America.
There's more obviously, but the overwhelming sentiment is clear: most people feel no one in power cares about us or are listening to the real issues we're screaming about at the top of our lungs. Everyone we vote for seems to betray us, throwing us concrete life preservers while we drown.
If something doesn't change soon and fast, people are going to break. They don't see light at the end of the tunnel anymore, just comforting lies and betrayal. People are madder than hell, and when that hits the next boiling point, I fear for what comes next.