One of the dumbest things that people who know better will ever say to me is that we fight them over there so we won’t have to fight them over here. I believed that rubbish for years and I’m sure I used that line myself. Then something miraculous happened to me, the scales fell away and I could suddenly see the propaganda. I could see the war machine. I could see the profiteers. Now the unending state of war made sense. If supporting killing people that we have no direct conflict with is required to be patriotic, then I have no interest in being patriotic. The world hates us because we have our nose in everyone’s business, and while we stoke billions into conflict, our country is crumbling around us. We never seem to leave any country we enter unless we are ran out. Think about that for a moment. Where is the gain? What better way make resources vanish into thin air, than to give it away for a war you have no stake in. What better way to drive up inflation and destroy savings of your citizens than to keep increasing the national debt while you are handing billions to countries that will never see any noticeable benefit. If only we could follow where that money ended up. If only there were actual accountability. My government has done the equivalent of buying rounds for everyone with my credit card, and here we shit in the streets and sleep under bridges, and in parks, and go hungry and die. There is no glue that binds us outside of skinny pop stars scantly clad, pointing us to the occult and singing simple unendurable meaningless lyrics. This is the new glue.

So I said all of that to say this….

We need someone to be brave enough to take our credit card and cut it in half, and keep on cutting until we can no longer afford to be the bully that we have become. Bring our army home. Bring the tools of war home. Make America our first priority, no…. Make America our only priority. Mind our own business. But we will never do this, and anyone with a voice loud enough to be heard that preaches this message will be dealt with. I love my country. What the hell happened?

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