I'm surrounded by people who see and agree that we are losing our country. The stolen election, the vaccine passports, the crashing dollar.... They know their children and grandchildren will have horrible lives....but they all seem to say what's the point worrying about it when there's nothing we can do about it?
Is there anyone else out there like me in mourning over all that we've already lost?
What a bunch of shameful weak americans we have become. The men who died for our freedom and people act like it was no big deal.
My heart is crushed. I'm so ashamed of some of my friends and family. My grandfather was a pearl harbor survivor, I lost uncle's in the Vietnam and Korean wars. And my family still has this disgraceful "well what can you do" attitude. I have lost all respect for them.
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In John Steinbeck's novel, Grapes of Wrath, there's the farmer who is being evicted from his land. In rage, he threatens to grab his rifle and shoot the president of the bank. Or the board of directors. He's told, of course, that this is pointless. The president of the bank can't stop the foreclosure. He has a boss himself. Or orders from back east. And you can't really shoot a bank. You might shoot someone who works at the bank and then go to jail, but the bank keeps doing its thing.
I think a lot of us feel like that farmer. We want to fight back, but who? Where?