Environmental protections? Gone.
FCC privacy protections? Gone.
Net neutrality? On death’s door.
And now, congressional Republicans have announced they have the votes to pass their highly unpopular tax plan that will give a $682 billion gift to corporations and add $1 trillion to the national deficit. And they’re voting on it tonight.
The blame for this lies squarely on the shoulders of the American people. Aside from the wealthy class of donors who know exactly what they are doing, Republicans won control of the entire government because their voters are are about as sharp as a bag of wet hair. Some buy into the GOP narrative hook, line, and sinker and remain willfully ignorant to the overwhelming evidence that they are being lied to. They see intelligence as scary and evil. They denounce science because they’re too stupid to understand it. Others are single issue voters who don’t care what their party does as long as hurts the fags. And yet even others are a frightening group of white nationalists who truly believe their God-King Trump will save the pure white race from the raping and pillaging hordes of brown people who are just trying to get by on $4 an hour. They are ruled by hate and fear. Fuck you, you racist, ignorant, homophobic, sanctimonious piles of human garbage.
There’s no less blame on the other side. Left-wing ideals have become such a laughingstock that to be called a “social justice warrior” is an insult. Progressivism is viewed entirely as a Tumblr caricature. There was a movement called Occupy that had a real chance of bringing change, and they completely blew it. They rallied, they made noise, and they got attention. But once the news cameras were focused on them, it was all deer in headlights. “Demands? Wait, what are our demands, guys? Shit, we got high and forgot to meet about that. Bummer.” What’s more, Congressional Democrats have taken a back seat through this entire governmental clusterfuck. What are the possible political consequences for standing up and drawing the world’s attention to the bold-faced lies of the Republicans? They have no majority to lose. You had a chance to fire up your voters while at the same time ironically doing the right thing. But that chance to stand up and save this train wreck has passed. You have no discernible agenda. You have no balls. The only congressional Democrats currently in the news are sexual predators. If you win anything come midterms, thank your lucky fucking stars, because apparently God too has had it with this bullshit. Fuck you, you cowardly, weak-willed mound of spineless amoebae.
The rest of you 41% who couldn’t even be bothered to get off your asses and vote. Some of you refused to vote for Hillary because Bernie got the shaft. Some of you just didn’t feel like it. Whatever the reason, you don’t deserve a paragraph the size of the others. You’ve gotten so comfortable in your cozy little amniotic sac of filled with Starbucks, Walmart, and Dancing with the Stars that you don’t even glance back to see how thoroughly you’re being fucked. Some countries just got their democracy and wait in polling lines for hours on end and at the threat of violence. You, you inattentive, underachieving waste of flesh, you didn’t go because you didn’t feel like putting shoes on.
Finally, I pit myself. I’m nearing the completion of a master’s degree in social work, and I haven’t engaged in one iota of community action. I joined Represent.Us, sat on one conference call, felt proud of myself, then went back to porn and video games because I decided “I didn’t have enough time.” Fuck me for being a self-satisfied, lazy shitstick.
The United States is in a state of decline. The balance has tipped too far. We allowed ourselves to be ruled by an elite wealthy class, and now we will be the ones paying for it.