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Acknowledging that leaving your dystopian hellhole called home is not a possibility for many people why are these people not on the streets protesting?
Diabetes care is criminal.
Maternity leave is criminal.
Labour laws are criminal.
And yet Americans writ large take it in the ass without batting an eye. Why?
What little care we can receive is contingent on having a full time job. Putting food on our tables and keeping a roof over our heads is also contingent on having a full time job, if not a second job on top of that. Everyone is working all the time. We don't have time to go out onto the streets and protest. This is by design. This is our shitty system working exactly as it's intended, and it's designed to keep itself intact by forcing the people it fucks over to struggle to survive, so that we're so preoccupied with existing that we can't realistically enact change.
And there is much eye batting, don't get it twisted. It's just that batting eyes is about all we have energy for at the end of the day.
I work a salaried full time job that provides me absolutely zero health care coverage of any kind. I'm on the ultra-budget tier of healthcare.gov benefits and my taxes get brutalized every spring because I "earn too much" to be on it.
Given the opportunity I would gladly push a guillotine around town, and when that's done I'd push it toward the state capitol and beyond. That opportunity will never come.
What is the expected results of such protest the monied interests and the top half have most of the money like 88% of the wealth and closer to 100% of the liquid wealth. This money pays for the campaigns of the politicians who are beholden to it.