We need a movement ready to restore America on a path to become the country we've dreamt of being for centuries. Not the fantasy of individual escape, but the reality of collective power.
The best way to gain hope is to give it. My goal every time I leave my house is to spread joy. Instead of thinking something nice when I see a person, I say it: you have amazing posture. Or: you look like you're lost; is there something I can help you find (at the store)? I love your shoes! I tell little kids how cute they are. I tell old couples how jealous I am of their obvious love. To see people's faces light up is all I could ask for. Try it! You'll like it!
I’ll have to finish this tomorrow because it’s late where I am but it looks like you’ve already got it nailed. For starters, thanks for explaining so succinctly why so many regular people identify with billionaires, to their detriment. “Rising above the crowd” is an unattainable dream for most. How about helping the crowd rise together? That sounds much more truly American to me!
Hello Corbin, I'll soon be on my own podcast and basically I'm presenting solutions for a better America for all. It's all about the money and that's my intentions to make sure everyone can have a realistic happy, healthy and prosperous life.
The only way is to sway the voters to vote and we gonna give them a solid reason to dominate the running of our Government so that it provides what we need the people need, we lose the worrying and suffering that most of these corrupt elected officials have caused us like forever, or so it seems...... 🇺🇸THE PEOPLE DECLARE; AMERICA BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE 🇺🇸
We are the rightful owners. The government is our employee. And justice is long overdue.
We, the People of the United States of America, hereby declare that:
• IMPEACH AND CONVICT TRUMP & VANCE!
• The government is not our ruler, but our employee — hired, funded, and directed by us, the sovereign citizens of America.
• For too long, that employee has acted against our will, against our interests, and in service to corporate and financial masters who have bought the law, corrupted the courts, and captured our democracy.
• The fruits of our labor have been stolen, our families buried in debt, our bodies broken by stress, and our dreams deferred — all the while; a corrupted government, protected by corrupted attorneys, enriched its donors, protected its cronies, and silenced its critics.
• We have been denied the most basic human guarantees: Free health, Free education, housing, and dignity — not because we can’t afford them, but because greed & corruption has stood in the way.
Today, We the People Say:
✅ We are the owners of this nation — not banks, not billionaires, not politicians and not the corrupted attorneys.
✅ The American government is our employee, and our Public Servants will serve us, or be fired, or indicted, convicted and imprisoned.
✅ We grant ourselves the bonus we were always owed:
• Free health care, dental care, & prescriptions. No more Insurance companies, no more HMO’s, no more PPO’s, no more deductibles, no more co-pays. No Insurance company employee will lose their job.
• Free education, free childcare for the poorest families from birth until 18 years of age, and open 24/7. This includes universities and technical schools, but no private schools from kindergarten through 12th grade.
• No more Income Taxes if you earn less than $1,000,000.00. No I.R.S. agent will lose their job.
• Unconscionable Debt-free lives.
• A stable home and no property taxes on our personal residences.
• A living wage for a reasonable decent life.
• Time to raise and care for our children, to care for our elders, to care for the children, to care for the poor, to care for the middle class, to protect the rich as well, to care for our sick, and to care for our Great Veterans.
• Equal rights for everyone. We are a secular Nation. You have the Right to worship your religion, or not believe in a religion, this is a must for America to Prevail as a Democratic Country, with a Democratic Government .
• A Woman’s body belongs to the Woman; The Woman makes every decision about her body.
• Control of our own future & spread our happiness and prosperity to the World!
• Like China, America will print our money with no National Debt, & we will retire The Federal Reserve Banking Act. America will print all the money necessary to keep our Democracy free and prosperous and keep the U.S. dollar valuable worldwide.
• If an Immigrant is in the USA illegally, and they have no weapons or violence in their history, we must allow them to apply for asylum or citizenship. For over 70 years our Government allowed and caused the immigration issue to become uncontrollable. Humanely & practicable, this is our best solution. Get caught coming over the border illegally now, means 1 year detention, then immediate deportation and no hearing.
✅ And we say never again will we be ruled by fear, trapped by excessive debt, or sold off to the highest bidder.
This is not revolution — this is our reward for developing a great Democracy and our hard work.
This is not utopia — this is justice.
This is not theory — this is what happens when the people remember they are the sovereign power in a free nation.
We are not asking.
We are not pleading.
We are restoring what is ours.
And we will never give it back.
AMERICA; FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, OF THE PEOPLE…..
FOR OUR PEOPLE, BY OUR PEOPLE, OF OUR PEOPLE…..and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
HOW DO WE TAKE BACK AMERICA FOR THE PEOPLE
With a measure of responsibility unmatched by generations before ours, we have entrusted our lives and futures to professionals and experts who convince us that we have to little knowledge or wit to make decisions of importance about the management of society. This is the consequences of our gullibility and laziness.”
DEAN KOONTZ
We know it’s all about the money!
We know what we want and need in America for all our people, but we need to vote for people that will do our bidding as elected officials. These hand-picked elected officials must agree to follow the written mandate with us, if they want our financial backing, I.É. donations. These candidates, that we will raise money for, must enter into an agreement that they agree to follow our mandate 100%, and if not, they must personally agree that to give us back all our donations, and even filing bankruptcy will not absolve them of this obligation to us. They also cannot switch parties.
My fellow Americans, do you want to keep all the money you earn and pay no personal income taxes if you earn less than $1,000,000 annually?
My fellow Americans, do you want and deserve free National Health care, Dental care and Free Prescriptions, no deductibles, no co pays.
My fellow Americans, do you want to pay no property taxes on your primary residence, ever?
My fellow Americans, do you want your education to be free, paid for by our Federal Government?
Our Federal Government (Our Employees) presently prints the money and allows the Federal Reserve Bankers to get filthy rich by using this the money to loan it to consumers, and these illegal and superfluous actions by the Bankers have created a National Debt of about $40 Trillion Dollars, and out tax dollars pay almost one trillion dollars of interest on America’s own money.
Under our new system Our Federal Government (The U.S. Treasury) will print the money and pay all the above costs outlined above, for all the expenses that have financially burdened us as Americans for a long, long period of time.
Our new financial system necessitates this approach to ease the unconscionable burden that our corrupted Elected officials have ladened us with. Our new system will create jobs, distributes America’s wealth much more evenly, helps everyone equally, even the rich!
We need to fund putting the best Elected Officials into running our Federal Government, for all the people, not just the greedy rich, the Corrupted Elected officials and their corrupt attorneys. Through the ballot box, we will vote in elected officials that we passed the laws to assure that America stays a democracy and has a sound, stable economic system so we all prosper, to where everyone enjoys the fruits of America’s labor.
We must build an organization that has leaders on every street in America, talking to their neighbors how this new concept of how our American government will benefit each one of us, equally. In addition, we will spread the outline of our new dynamic principles called; through Social Media, and by retaining the Influencers that support the views of our mandate called; 🇺🇸 THE PEOPLE DECLARE; AMERICA BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE, and that almost every one of you are in total agreement with this, and should be.
This is a learning experience not only for me, but for each, and every one of you as well.
Independents, Republicans, Democrats and unaffiliated voters can now afford to donate to those candidates that will make this happen in Our America.
Net: If DJT, aided & abetted by Elon Musk, had not been re-elected. DJT would probably be in Prison, and had to File For Bankruptcy Again... This Article could help explain DJT's Constant Grifting...
Thank you for putting the thought and the years of your experience into these posts. We can and inevitably will all work together. Why not sooner! I appreciate your perspective and look forward to more.
45 years as a Swedish emigrant last 15 years as a General Contractor 3 years ago a total knee replacement and 10 months ago spinal surgery over 3 years without being able to do my usual work, been paying into my social security and Medicare for over 40 years and signed up for social security in February when I turned 65 still nothing. Now this Orange Con and his criminal friends have fucked with the system and yesterday he became the wannabe King/Dictator one day before we all celebrating Independence Day. Just over 5 months with him at the helm screwing over every hard working American taxpayer. On top of that he is a bone Spur convicted felon a bankruptcy King
Yes, Corbin. Now you are loosening the shoelaces. The build part is still shaky. We have to build DOWN, not up. The techno/deus ex machina bedazzlement has never produced quality, only quantity, mostly of new problems with no solutions and new problems to never solve the first problem with the first solution. A ugly daisy chain of conspiracy to keep DENIAL in play. Never admit a mistake. Never confess. Never TELL THE TRUTH. Always LIE, LIE, LIE. Claim Victory in the midst of embarrassing DEFEAT. Your treatise on craving gadgets is first class. You now know what you have been writing about.
Now explore doing WAY more with WAY less. It is not a math question. It is a de-growth question with a very small number answer. No one is an immigrant. No one is illegal. No one is a criminal for being somewhere. A criminal is someone who is never at the somewhere position where the crime is being committed. It is always the 'other' guy. Yes, of course, MAKE necessary things for Sustainable Existence. Nothing More. Gain is not a measurement. It is the peace of mind and body that comes without measurement. But most importantly, Nature and our physical world is NOT OURS. We belong to IT. We kill it, we are DEAD. Reverence is the highest form of quality, it infuses all energies with intelligence. Clever, cunning, treacherous behaviors are NOT INTELLIGENT. They are DEATH. To ALL beings and ALL things physical.
There is on ONE true politic party - Peaceful People Party. The addiction to violence is just that, an addiction that must be vanquished, violently, if no other way presents itself Violence is, if nothing else, self-fulfilling.
Capitalism must disappear, forever. It is just a massive parasite feeling on all else, and then itself. Do you know any being who is better off with an obligate parasite in its gut? Eschew this nonsense NOW. The best parasite that exists is still below the curve of commensalism.
The entire template must be re-designed, not as one size fits all, but all sizes fit together as one. Like it actually is and has been for many millions of years. Evolution is messy. Democracy, the right of each being to live and die in its own space unless it recognizes the needs of the 'other,' is about all any being (wild beings have known this for forever) needs to experience, just once. If it lives, it learns. If not, MOVE ON. As a field ecologist, I see wildlife die every day. But they do it with dignity, and those around them recycle the energy dutifully, because that energy is their energy also. Nature learns, humans stay stupid. Right now, science is still dissecting reality, but is losing all sight and sound of what reality is, because science is INSIDE reality. Political society is not doing anything, just waiting for Godot and the next chemical fix.
We must restore our opportunity economy. After WWII we initiated Bretton Woods and New Deal economic policies. This enabled people to improve their lives by affordable education, we built infrastructure that improved the country, and provided benefits for people. The best of the system was affordable education. I, personally benefited so much. I was able to attend WVU and later got a masters degree with a grant from the National Science Foundation. This education enabled me to earn enough to raise my 3 kids, sometimes as a single mom. I made it. I can’t imagine how it would have been today.
"We need a movement." Yep. So, now what? That's what I deal with.
"We need massive sign-ups to a Coalition for the Good. Then we’d need a Wisdom Council to guide it. One person would volunteer to start that. Say Marianne Williamson. She picks someone. Say Cory Booker. Marianne and Cory pick a third person, the three of them pick a fourth, and so on, all respected figures people would listen to, who would guide the coalition for what it should do. Add a Suggestion Box for ideas that go to the Wisdom Council, and you have an ad hoc way for we-the-people to move the world."
Hey, Corbin. This made me cry. SO real. It took us about five decades to get here - despite the warnings. The pleas. Now we do the difficult work of retraining our minds, our behaviors, our beliefs. It's gonna take time. And all of us. Together. The long, arduous road. Nobody ever said it was gonna be easy. Keep preaching.
This is it. The gospel of rigged ladders and lottery-ticket theology. Somewhere along the way, we stopped dreaming in solidarity and started fantasizing in solitude—trading the hope of collective liberation for the delusion of individual escape.
We don’t need more bootstrap sermons or billionaire cosplay. We need communion. We need covenant. We need a hope with callouses, not hashtags.
Thank you for speaking plainly. The dream isn’t dead, but it is being held hostage by false prophets in Patagonia vests.
You are definitely talking my language, now. Escapism is killing us because it is the practical equivalent of enabling. Our so-called corruption problems are mostly the dull, collective result of what happens when we allow people to do the least amount of work while playing games with the lives of others - ignoring that fact, is a facet of escapism. Another facet, is having a world view that blinds us to the truth of people. The hardest truth I ever had to accept was that people do what they do, on purpose. The idea that "hurt people hurt people" is just another escapist route. Were we wise, we'd take the measure of each person each time we met them, refusing to assess or blame at any group level, no matter how tempting that easy, escapist road. When we finally get accustomed to the very real, life-saving need to face what is true and real, hidden in plain site corruption and all, then we'll stop pretending that corruption and rigged systems are an inescapable given. (How can a rigged system be inescapable when we, the people, created the systems we complain about?) You are correct that truth takes effort. The best results begin and end with right effort, but right now people are exhausted from all the downsides of escapism. To restore our energy for the efforts needed ahead, we must join together as one mind and heart. I can think of no better effort or goal than that of truth to guide us, for I have learned from experience that truth really does free a person. Collective truth can free a nation, even a civilization. Truth is a great if not the greatest power, so it is no wonder that there are those who want to convince us that truth doesn't exist. Personally, I seek truth through clarity. I cannot fix what I cannot or refuse to see. Neither can we.
MAAA.
Make America America Again.
The best way to gain hope is to give it. My goal every time I leave my house is to spread joy. Instead of thinking something nice when I see a person, I say it: you have amazing posture. Or: you look like you're lost; is there something I can help you find (at the store)? I love your shoes! I tell little kids how cute they are. I tell old couples how jealous I am of their obvious love. To see people's faces light up is all I could ask for. Try it! You'll like it!
Excellent!
Hi Trent — following you from North Central Vermont, by way of Maryville TN. Thankful every day to have moved to Vermont a decade ago.
I’ll have to finish this tomorrow because it’s late where I am but it looks like you’ve already got it nailed. For starters, thanks for explaining so succinctly why so many regular people identify with billionaires, to their detriment. “Rising above the crowd” is an unattainable dream for most. How about helping the crowd rise together? That sounds much more truly American to me!
Hello Corbin, I'll soon be on my own podcast and basically I'm presenting solutions for a better America for all. It's all about the money and that's my intentions to make sure everyone can have a realistic happy, healthy and prosperous life.
The only way is to sway the voters to vote and we gonna give them a solid reason to dominate the running of our Government so that it provides what we need the people need, we lose the worrying and suffering that most of these corrupt elected officials have caused us like forever, or so it seems...... 🇺🇸THE PEOPLE DECLARE; AMERICA BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE 🇺🇸
We are the rightful owners. The government is our employee. And justice is long overdue.
We, the People of the United States of America, hereby declare that:
• IMPEACH AND CONVICT TRUMP & VANCE!
• The government is not our ruler, but our employee — hired, funded, and directed by us, the sovereign citizens of America.
• For too long, that employee has acted against our will, against our interests, and in service to corporate and financial masters who have bought the law, corrupted the courts, and captured our democracy.
• The fruits of our labor have been stolen, our families buried in debt, our bodies broken by stress, and our dreams deferred — all the while; a corrupted government, protected by corrupted attorneys, enriched its donors, protected its cronies, and silenced its critics.
• We have been denied the most basic human guarantees: Free health, Free education, housing, and dignity — not because we can’t afford them, but because greed & corruption has stood in the way.
Today, We the People Say:
✅ We are the owners of this nation — not banks, not billionaires, not politicians and not the corrupted attorneys.
✅ The American government is our employee, and our Public Servants will serve us, or be fired, or indicted, convicted and imprisoned.
✅ We grant ourselves the bonus we were always owed:
• Free health care, dental care, & prescriptions. No more Insurance companies, no more HMO’s, no more PPO’s, no more deductibles, no more co-pays. No Insurance company employee will lose their job.
• Free education, free childcare for the poorest families from birth until 18 years of age, and open 24/7. This includes universities and technical schools, but no private schools from kindergarten through 12th grade.
• No more Income Taxes if you earn less than $1,000,000.00. No I.R.S. agent will lose their job.
• Unconscionable Debt-free lives.
• A stable home and no property taxes on our personal residences.
• A living wage for a reasonable decent life.
• Time to raise and care for our children, to care for our elders, to care for the children, to care for the poor, to care for the middle class, to protect the rich as well, to care for our sick, and to care for our Great Veterans.
• Equal rights for everyone. We are a secular Nation. You have the Right to worship your religion, or not believe in a religion, this is a must for America to Prevail as a Democratic Country, with a Democratic Government .
• A Woman’s body belongs to the Woman; The Woman makes every decision about her body.
• Control of our own future & spread our happiness and prosperity to the World!
• Like China, America will print our money with no National Debt, & we will retire The Federal Reserve Banking Act. America will print all the money necessary to keep our Democracy free and prosperous and keep the U.S. dollar valuable worldwide.
• If an Immigrant is in the USA illegally, and they have no weapons or violence in their history, we must allow them to apply for asylum or citizenship. For over 70 years our Government allowed and caused the immigration issue to become uncontrollable. Humanely & practicable, this is our best solution. Get caught coming over the border illegally now, means 1 year detention, then immediate deportation and no hearing.
✅ And we say never again will we be ruled by fear, trapped by excessive debt, or sold off to the highest bidder.
This is not revolution — this is our reward for developing a great Democracy and our hard work.
This is not utopia — this is justice.
This is not theory — this is what happens when the people remember they are the sovereign power in a free nation.
We are not asking.
We are not pleading.
We are restoring what is ours.
And we will never give it back.
AMERICA; FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, OF THE PEOPLE…..
FOR OUR PEOPLE, BY OUR PEOPLE, OF OUR PEOPLE…..and >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
HOW DO WE TAKE BACK AMERICA FOR THE PEOPLE
With a measure of responsibility unmatched by generations before ours, we have entrusted our lives and futures to professionals and experts who convince us that we have to little knowledge or wit to make decisions of importance about the management of society. This is the consequences of our gullibility and laziness.”
DEAN KOONTZ
We know it’s all about the money!
We know what we want and need in America for all our people, but we need to vote for people that will do our bidding as elected officials. These hand-picked elected officials must agree to follow the written mandate with us, if they want our financial backing, I.É. donations. These candidates, that we will raise money for, must enter into an agreement that they agree to follow our mandate 100%, and if not, they must personally agree that to give us back all our donations, and even filing bankruptcy will not absolve them of this obligation to us. They also cannot switch parties.
My fellow Americans, do you want to keep all the money you earn and pay no personal income taxes if you earn less than $1,000,000 annually?
My fellow Americans, do you want and deserve free National Health care, Dental care and Free Prescriptions, no deductibles, no co pays.
My fellow Americans, do you want to pay no property taxes on your primary residence, ever?
My fellow Americans, do you want your education to be free, paid for by our Federal Government?
Our Federal Government (Our Employees) presently prints the money and allows the Federal Reserve Bankers to get filthy rich by using this the money to loan it to consumers, and these illegal and superfluous actions by the Bankers have created a National Debt of about $40 Trillion Dollars, and out tax dollars pay almost one trillion dollars of interest on America’s own money.
Under our new system Our Federal Government (The U.S. Treasury) will print the money and pay all the above costs outlined above, for all the expenses that have financially burdened us as Americans for a long, long period of time.
Our new financial system necessitates this approach to ease the unconscionable burden that our corrupted Elected officials have ladened us with. Our new system will create jobs, distributes America’s wealth much more evenly, helps everyone equally, even the rich!
We need to fund putting the best Elected Officials into running our Federal Government, for all the people, not just the greedy rich, the Corrupted Elected officials and their corrupt attorneys. Through the ballot box, we will vote in elected officials that we passed the laws to assure that America stays a democracy and has a sound, stable economic system so we all prosper, to where everyone enjoys the fruits of America’s labor.
We must build an organization that has leaders on every street in America, talking to their neighbors how this new concept of how our American government will benefit each one of us, equally. In addition, we will spread the outline of our new dynamic principles called; through Social Media, and by retaining the Influencers that support the views of our mandate called; 🇺🇸 THE PEOPLE DECLARE; AMERICA BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE, and that almost every one of you are in total agreement with this, and should be.
This is a learning experience not only for me, but for each, and every one of you as well.
Independents, Republicans, Democrats and unaffiliated voters can now afford to donate to those candidates that will make this happen in Our America.
Thank you Martyrita
Hello Corbin... This is an Eloquent Piece...
BTW: The NYT had an Investigative Article about DJT's Net-Worth 2-July- 2025...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/02/business/donald-trump-wealth-net-worth.html
Net: If DJT, aided & abetted by Elon Musk, had not been re-elected. DJT would probably be in Prison, and had to File For Bankruptcy Again... This Article could help explain DJT's Constant Grifting...
Thank you for putting the thought and the years of your experience into these posts. We can and inevitably will all work together. Why not sooner! I appreciate your perspective and look forward to more.
45 years as a Swedish emigrant last 15 years as a General Contractor 3 years ago a total knee replacement and 10 months ago spinal surgery over 3 years without being able to do my usual work, been paying into my social security and Medicare for over 40 years and signed up for social security in February when I turned 65 still nothing. Now this Orange Con and his criminal friends have fucked with the system and yesterday he became the wannabe King/Dictator one day before we all celebrating Independence Day. Just over 5 months with him at the helm screwing over every hard working American taxpayer. On top of that he is a bone Spur convicted felon a bankruptcy King
Powerful story, powerful words. Thank you.
Yes, Corbin. Now you are loosening the shoelaces. The build part is still shaky. We have to build DOWN, not up. The techno/deus ex machina bedazzlement has never produced quality, only quantity, mostly of new problems with no solutions and new problems to never solve the first problem with the first solution. A ugly daisy chain of conspiracy to keep DENIAL in play. Never admit a mistake. Never confess. Never TELL THE TRUTH. Always LIE, LIE, LIE. Claim Victory in the midst of embarrassing DEFEAT. Your treatise on craving gadgets is first class. You now know what you have been writing about.
Now explore doing WAY more with WAY less. It is not a math question. It is a de-growth question with a very small number answer. No one is an immigrant. No one is illegal. No one is a criminal for being somewhere. A criminal is someone who is never at the somewhere position where the crime is being committed. It is always the 'other' guy. Yes, of course, MAKE necessary things for Sustainable Existence. Nothing More. Gain is not a measurement. It is the peace of mind and body that comes without measurement. But most importantly, Nature and our physical world is NOT OURS. We belong to IT. We kill it, we are DEAD. Reverence is the highest form of quality, it infuses all energies with intelligence. Clever, cunning, treacherous behaviors are NOT INTELLIGENT. They are DEATH. To ALL beings and ALL things physical.
There is on ONE true politic party - Peaceful People Party. The addiction to violence is just that, an addiction that must be vanquished, violently, if no other way presents itself Violence is, if nothing else, self-fulfilling.
Capitalism must disappear, forever. It is just a massive parasite feeling on all else, and then itself. Do you know any being who is better off with an obligate parasite in its gut? Eschew this nonsense NOW. The best parasite that exists is still below the curve of commensalism.
The entire template must be re-designed, not as one size fits all, but all sizes fit together as one. Like it actually is and has been for many millions of years. Evolution is messy. Democracy, the right of each being to live and die in its own space unless it recognizes the needs of the 'other,' is about all any being (wild beings have known this for forever) needs to experience, just once. If it lives, it learns. If not, MOVE ON. As a field ecologist, I see wildlife die every day. But they do it with dignity, and those around them recycle the energy dutifully, because that energy is their energy also. Nature learns, humans stay stupid. Right now, science is still dissecting reality, but is losing all sight and sound of what reality is, because science is INSIDE reality. Political society is not doing anything, just waiting for Godot and the next chemical fix.
We must restore our opportunity economy. After WWII we initiated Bretton Woods and New Deal economic policies. This enabled people to improve their lives by affordable education, we built infrastructure that improved the country, and provided benefits for people. The best of the system was affordable education. I, personally benefited so much. I was able to attend WVU and later got a masters degree with a grant from the National Science Foundation. This education enabled me to earn enough to raise my 3 kids, sometimes as a single mom. I made it. I can’t imagine how it would have been today.
"We need a movement." Yep. So, now what? That's what I deal with.
"We need massive sign-ups to a Coalition for the Good. Then we’d need a Wisdom Council to guide it. One person would volunteer to start that. Say Marianne Williamson. She picks someone. Say Cory Booker. Marianne and Cory pick a third person, the three of them pick a fourth, and so on, all respected figures people would listen to, who would guide the coalition for what it should do. Add a Suggestion Box for ideas that go to the Wisdom Council, and you have an ad hoc way for we-the-people to move the world."
That's a paragraph from this:
An epidemic of courage
For doing what saves humanity
https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/an-epidemic-of-courage
Hey, Corbin. This made me cry. SO real. It took us about five decades to get here - despite the warnings. The pleas. Now we do the difficult work of retraining our minds, our behaviors, our beliefs. It's gonna take time. And all of us. Together. The long, arduous road. Nobody ever said it was gonna be easy. Keep preaching.
This is it. The gospel of rigged ladders and lottery-ticket theology. Somewhere along the way, we stopped dreaming in solidarity and started fantasizing in solitude—trading the hope of collective liberation for the delusion of individual escape.
We don’t need more bootstrap sermons or billionaire cosplay. We need communion. We need covenant. We need a hope with callouses, not hashtags.
Thank you for speaking plainly. The dream isn’t dead, but it is being held hostage by false prophets in Patagonia vests.
You are definitely talking my language, now. Escapism is killing us because it is the practical equivalent of enabling. Our so-called corruption problems are mostly the dull, collective result of what happens when we allow people to do the least amount of work while playing games with the lives of others - ignoring that fact, is a facet of escapism. Another facet, is having a world view that blinds us to the truth of people. The hardest truth I ever had to accept was that people do what they do, on purpose. The idea that "hurt people hurt people" is just another escapist route. Were we wise, we'd take the measure of each person each time we met them, refusing to assess or blame at any group level, no matter how tempting that easy, escapist road. When we finally get accustomed to the very real, life-saving need to face what is true and real, hidden in plain site corruption and all, then we'll stop pretending that corruption and rigged systems are an inescapable given. (How can a rigged system be inescapable when we, the people, created the systems we complain about?) You are correct that truth takes effort. The best results begin and end with right effort, but right now people are exhausted from all the downsides of escapism. To restore our energy for the efforts needed ahead, we must join together as one mind and heart. I can think of no better effort or goal than that of truth to guide us, for I have learned from experience that truth really does free a person. Collective truth can free a nation, even a civilization. Truth is a great if not the greatest power, so it is no wonder that there are those who want to convince us that truth doesn't exist. Personally, I seek truth through clarity. I cannot fix what I cannot or refuse to see. Neither can we.
https://open.substack.com/pub/hollyf111/p/the-new-deal-vs-raw-deal?r=4qwr75&utm_medium=ios