Happy freedom season for America

obsoletepolitics:

We got:

• A literal fucking empire, let’s elaborate
• 25% of the world’s prisoners, but only 5% of the world’s population, many of whom are in for nonviolent offenses and paid cents on the hour for their labor
• Some prisoners getting paid nothing at all for their labor, in instances of literal slavery
• Drones bombing people halfway around the world on a routine basis
• An occupation in Afghanistan that’s been going on since fucking 2001
• An airport security routine that routinely violates privacy rights and is basically authoritarian theatre
• Poor people paying about 20% in taxes, with real wages unchanged since the 19 fucking 70s, while most of the real income gains have gone to the 1% richest people in our society
• Income inequality the worst it’s been since the Great Depression
• Minorities, mentally ill, and/or homeless people getting brutalized and shot routinely by the police
• No left-wing party worth speaking of, just diet right, classic right, and zero-calorie right (now with 3.27% of the popular vote)
• About half our food being wasted while people starve
• The NRA advertising authoritarian, us vs. them rhetoric straight out of old-timey propaganda films
• A president who is on the record as having endorsed and committed sexual assault, has committed fraud, and isn’t even good at the thing he was supposed to be good at
• His opponent during the election, who used literal slave labor and has endorsed bombing people halfway around the world on a routine basis, as detailed above
• Gerrymandering so thick that we’ve got states that aren’t even classified as democracies anymore
• A mainstream media that acts, unconditionally, as a willing accomplice to the state
• Our politicians trying to slash programs and agencies whose aims a majority of our population like and want
• People having to call and beg our politicians to not cut the things that we like and want
• Our politicians doing fuck nothing that’s any good for anyone, even though a single party controls the whole government right now
• A holiday full of drinking and fireworks so we can forget about the fact that we live in a dystopia