Most Americans have no real understanding of our economy, or how our government operates, or a whole bunch of important things.
To be honest, I’m no expert either, so I’ve put together this simple list to try to get a grasp on a few things.
Let’s see now:
Reagan cut taxes on the wealthy back in the 1980s
Those tax cuts create a much larger debt (our government pays out a whole lot more each year than it brings in, so how much “we owe” continues to grow)
Republicans blame the debt on “welfare queens”
Fox News perpetuates the lie that social programs like Welfare, Social Security, and Medicare are growing the debt
George W. Bush cuts taxes again for the wealthy, promising to grow the economy again from the top-down
Bush wages two wars without funding them, adding staggering amounts to the debt
The GOP and Fox News continue the narrative that the government can not continue to pay for all these social programs, and now—IMMIGRANTS!—wanting “free American services”
GOP followers resentment towards Democrats grows deep, based on lies
Trump cuts taxes even further for wealthy and corporations, piling onto an out-of-control debt
Trump fumbles coronavirus response, crashes economy, requiring government bailout, adds trillions to ballooning debt
Trump lies about presidential election, declares ‘he alone’ can fix economy that he wrecked, and promises to eliminate debt created by Republican policies of tax cuts for wealthy
Trump blames Democrats for stealing election, angers GOP followers to fever pitch leading to Insurrection
Democrats under Biden work to reduce taxes and burdens (student loans) on average Americans, while increasing revenue—and reducing debt—through slight tax increases on wealthy and corporations
Republicans block efforts to raise taxes on corporations or wealthy; block student loan forgiveness
Fox News and GOP continue to tell followers that Democrats can’t handle the economy while job growth under Democratic president hits record highs
Biden passes bi-partisan legislation to get America working, expands the economy, grows jobs, increases wages, and improves health care
Corporations fight against tax increases by jacking up prices on gas, oil, and food, leading to stiff inflation
Republicans offer to fight inflation, crime, and immigration if followers will elect them in 2022
GOP takes over House, offers zero bills on inflation, crime, or immigration
GOP refuses to pass wind-fall profits tax on record-setting corporate profits, known as “greedflation”
Biden continues to grow economy through millions of better paying jobs, better healthcare plans, childcare incentives, and student loan forgiveness but can’t decrease the debt due to GOP’s unwillingness to raise taxes
GOP House continues to try to shut down Congress, hasn’t passed a single bill to reduce inflation, and continues to support a tax-dodging, indicted traitor
OK, so I don’t understand the economy or the government. But as an observer, I can see what has happened over the past 40+ years: the Republicans are making the wealthy even more wealthy through repeated tax cuts. At the same time, all those tax cuts have greatly reduced the money coming into our government, and we have an out-of-this-world debt problem, now something like 30 trillion dollars!
The wealthy then give some of that money back to Republicans so they can remain in office, mostly by lying to their constituents about what they will do if elected—but they never do.
Those wealthy snobs have also bankrolled a lot of Republican judges, including at least two on the Supreme Court—Thomas and Alito. These guys have been taking bribes for years from these rich folks, then they decide cases in their favor—and that’s fucked up.
While I’m no expert, it sure seems to me that the Republicans lie as a rule to the American people; give tax breaks to the wealthy, take kick-backs, stand in the way of anything the American people need, and support a lying, superficial rapist who wants to destroy the rest of our democracy. The rich want to control the nation and it’s government; they use their money to buy Republican politicians, who could care less about those of us who work our asses off to build America. They want to go back to 1787, when only rich, White men had any say in running the country.
Oh, and I forgot: that traitorous letch Trump says he will lock up Mr. Biden and anyone else if he gets another shot at being president. He has called us “vermin,” just like Hitler did, and has declared that the America we know will end if he gets elected again.
Someone asked me why I’m so angry: gee, I don’t know. Maybe I don’t like fighting for my country while most Americans aren’t even paying attention. It’s like I’m choking to death over here, but nobody gives a fuck. All the people seem to care about is the same old shit they have always done, instead of waking the fuck up and fighting to save this country. I’ve already served 10 fucking years serving it, as have a few others, but the majority of Americans would rather just sleepwalk their way through the next year without “getting involved in politics.”
While the country is being fucking hi-jacked by Republican terrorists, most Americans don’t want to be bothered by it. Those who have an audience here or elsewhere could use that space to raise awareness that our goddamn nation might just end if Trump is re-elected, but there seems to be no way of getting through to folks.
Americans just don’t seem to care about America.
Oh, well.
Like most Americans, I’ll guess I should just put my head in the sand and watch some more TikTok videos. I mean, why should any of us care if one day soon we wake up and America has no more free press, women aren’t allowed to work, Blacks have lost all their rights again, and Social Security is shutdown—as well as Medicare and anything else that helps half the nation from starving or freezing to death. Oh, yeah, and Obamacare will be gone too, but why should I care. I’ll just watch another video.
What’s that? TikTok and all social media will be shut down too, except for messages from the state-run media? How did we turn into Russia?
Oh, yeah, that’s right: because most people were too busy, too distracted, or too self-absorbed to give a fuck.
Thanks, America.
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