Doomsday

I can't believe what I am reading, hearing, and feeling.  When did it become normal in the United States of America to hear about abject
poverty as a result of slave wages?  When did our federal government become a club for rich businessmen who care nothing about the middle and lower classes in America?  These are our elected representatives, and starkly it is clear that our voting system deeply is flawed.  If these men purport to have the best interests of citizens at heart, they are lying.  Never in my memory have I witnessed such a flawed Washington.  The image of Hank Paulson coaching Bill Clinton from the podium is enlightening.  The film "Vice" which recently was released was enlightening.  When did elected Washingtonians become puppets manipulated by wealthy Nazi's?   It is frightening.  News stories about detainment, harassment, deportation, and border security.  It is our President Trump waging a campaign against evil Mexican terrorists trying to penetrate our southern most border?  It is commonly understood drugs do not enter our country walking across a border.  They are tunneled in by a complex cartel system of bribery with fast boats, aircraft, and strategy.  No humble South American citizen fighting for their own survival has enough time to fathom smuggling drugs in the United States.  A border wall is nothing more than a symbolic campaign promise made in 2016 relating to nothing more than vote gathering for the 2020 presidential campaign.  If Trump openly voiced it was his token to the American steel industry, that would be different.  All ready we are a socialist nation.  The government supports the American people, but the American people do not own the means of production.  They are not smart enough to manage it.  What is left of our private work force quickly is becoming a posse of slaves.  Stories of despair, humiliation, poverty, suicide, and murder frequent our headlines.  Murderous violence in North Carolina is enough to make one shudder.  All of it accelerated with the inauguration of Donald Trump.  When he took office in January of 2016, CSX-T expanded their rail activity.  It has not stopped since.  There has been a standing wave in my home for over two weeks.  I am forced awake at 3:40 a.m. by a humming, vibrating, pounding freight which stops and sits for the next five hours.  The air pressure is so strong from their infrasound, it could knock you over in your home.  We wonder whence the violence comes.  Why are Americans violent and unhappy?  Who is doing anything to ensure Americans have clean air, clean drinking water, and economic opportunity?  Who is trying to get American's jobs, knowing that to survive in America without government entitlements jobs are necessary?  Our manufacturing has been outsourced to foreign countries.  Wages have been stagnant for decades, and yet, "The price of concrete keeps increasing."  Inflation.  Adjusted for inflation.  What inflation?  Wages have not increased, they have decreased with the lack of presence of labor unions.  Our entire support system ensuring economic opportunity for everyone has been crippled by wealthy Republican businessmen who want only for themselves.  It is depressing.  There is no American Dream.  The only dream is to escape persecution, poverty, and slavery.  Escape imprisonment.  Escape torture.  Escape genocide, the same genocide which happened less than one hundred years ago.  All ready it seems to have begun in America but from within.  It is covert, internal, and subtle.  We poison our population with genetically modified foods.  We tempt them with fatty fast good.  We addict them to substances which are necessary to make it through the day.  America no longer is America.  We have become surrogate America, a population of childish images, behaviors, and habits.  Television commercials depict us as cartoon characters at the level of mindless, naive, stuffed animals.  When did America regress from a nation of renegade, recalcitrant, hippy, good-hearted souls to a nation of student murderers?  "What am I going to do today?  I think I'll motor on down to the local elementary school and murder some innocent children."  What kind of nation produces such behavior with an elected leader who patterns his presidency after a child Asian dictator?  Fuck us, because we all are doomed.