Proud? To be an American?
I can’t help but think, are our lives great right now? Are our basic needs met? When already low wages stagnate and prices skyrocket, is America great?
None of our lives have to be as difficult as they are. Our rights, our power, and our money are being stolen by corrupt liars and conmen who funnel our hard earned tax dollars to their cronies. They start illegal wars, give no bid contracts that somehow make cleaning a pool cost more money than most of us will ever see in our lifetime, and allow corporate mergers that lead to less jobs as long as the merger gives their friends more power.
The constitution says we have the inalienable right to end the power of any government that no longer listens to us. It’s not just our right, it’s our responsibility. Right now, the people taking on that responsibility are what make me proud of America. I’m proud of the people throughout our 250 years of existence who stood up for what’s right and changed this country to be better. They had to endure insults like “Anti-American” or “unpatriotic” or “woke” and they kept going anyway. They were abolitionists, and suffragettes, and activists.
Right now, they’re called protesters, organizers, progressives, leftists, communists, terrorists. They’re called any word the elites think will smear them and make us stop listening to them. But we’re not so easily fooled anymore. They’re people from all over the country and from all over the political spectrum who woke up and realized we have nothing if we can’t say no to greed, authoritarianism, and tyranny.
Right now, those people are targeted by this corrupt regime. They’re branded terrorists, traitors, a threat to America. The government is trying to silence them. When they found we’d stand up to killing them, they changed course. Now they’re using extremely long jail sentences for protesters, just a few months after they pardoned the people who invaded the capital on January 6 2020.
The real threat to America is the cowards on both sides of the political spectrum working to entrench power for the elites. They pass surveillance laws to “protect” children while they ignore and hide the Epstein files. They vow to make America healthy again, then deregulate the pesticides giving us cancer. They vow to bring costs down, then start wars that drive gas prices up and they give cronies contracts to build data centers that do the same for electric bills.
Those people are the ones threatening this country. And they will destroy it if we let them. Let’s stop falling for their lies and smear campaigns and recognize the true patriots standing up for our rights in protests, organizing, and other forms of activism.
And let’s join them and take our power back from the powers that be. The powers that be have broken the agreement enshrined in the declaration of independence: they can have power if (and only if) they use it to serve and represent us. All of us.
The fact that so many Americans are doing this already is what I’m proud of today on America’s 250th birthday.
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