When Nothing Works

Our systems are failing. Why? Because they have morphed into unsustainable entities that are being backed by the Supreme Court. Remember Citizens’ United? It opened the floodgates to dark money flowing into our elections — coming from who knows where, and we can’t even trace it. How is that a good thing? I see it as the beginning of the end for the United States. Elections funded by Russia, greedy politicians up to their ears in corruption. This court we now have is even more right wing than the one who decided that case. Now they are poised to limit the EPA. They want to go backward on clean water, clean air at a time when global climate change threatens our very lives. They are Republican led and Republican run, the people who deny reality. Do any of these dudes have children or grandchildren? do they think they will live forever in a world of pollution? I just don’t get it.

One way to look at it that helps me, is to realize that this house of of cards is coming down. The farther we go with these policies the faster it will happen. The two party system is failing, our roads and bridges are failing, our supply chain is failing, we have mass shootings on a daily basis. People are living in their cars or on the streets. People can’t afford food. I could go on and on…The midterm elections will be the culmination of years of planning — voter repression and intimidation, gerrymandering. Partisan poll workers…