Another depressing year

I truly hope our situation gets better. A question will be how did you make it through or hide out during the first two decades of the two thousands. Congress has a six percent approval rating; you could shed genital warts in a kinder light. Maybe it is just my geographical location; maybe things are different around the country. I know the situation is not better in Las Vegas, so I am sure it is like this everywhere. Are you sick of it? The greed, the selfishness, the “I got mine close the door” attitude, it just makes you want to close your door (if you have one) and pretend you’re in a different time or place. That somehow the world really is not like this, people cannot be this callous.  Maybe I’m naïve but I think people are better than the sum of their representation and right about now it would take a revolution to change things. The wealth grabbers have been at this since 1970, pushing the taxes on the working classes while lowering or eliminating it altogether for them and their corporations. They socialize the risk and privatize the gains. The wealthy want to cut existing safety nets, take peoples pensions yet get billions in substitutes. They say they hate government only they do not. They love government when it is protecting them from the “great beast”, the “useless eaters” or enforcing their patent laws and forcibly removing protesters from their environmentally destructive “work” sites. Most days I do not want to get out of bed anymore, the world has become too cold and cruel. People don’t care about people anymore. I still wake up with the hope, the hope that one day people will come together to stop this before we reach a full on totalitarian police state. A day everybody walks out of their jobs and says, we are done until things change. It is just a fantasy but that’s all I have left anymore.