A Sinking Feeling That Won’t Go Away
I keep telling myself that maybe, just maybe, I’m the crazy one. Maybe I’m overthinking it. Maybe everything really is fine, and I just need to log off, touch some grass, and stop reading about the latest legislation gutting yet another public service that average Americans rely on.
But then, reality smacks me in the face like a corporate tax cut that definitely isn’t trickling down.
Because no matter how I try to slice it, I can’t shake the feeling that we are barreling full-speed into a country where you either own the yacht or drown in the wake.
The Billionaire Bailout While the Rest of Us Sink
We’re watching billionaires buy up islands and social media platforms like they’re shopping for groceries, while the rest of us debate whether eggs are an affordable luxury this month.
And the people running this country? They’re doing everything in their power to make sure the billionaire class gets richer, even if it means gutting social safety nets, dismantling worker protections, and casually letting inflation devour paychecks faster than a hedge fund devours a small-town factory.
Take a look at some of the most recent gems from this administration:
- Proposed federal cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and CHIP—because who needs food and healthcare when you can just manifest survival?
- The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Marketed as a blessing for the middle class but delivered as a gold-plated gift to the top 1%, who somehow needed even more wealth hoarded in offshore accounts.
- New tariffs that could increase household costs by an estimated $1,200 a year. Because nothing says “economic relief” like making basic necessities even more expensive.
Meanwhile, the Cheerleaders for Their Own Demise
Perhaps the most confusing part of it all is that there are still people—regular, everyday Americans—cheering for this.
I scroll through social media and see people celebrating policies that directly make their own lives harder. People defending a system that wouldn't bail them out of a fender bender but has no problem handing tax breaks to billion-dollar corporations.
It’s like watching someone applaud as their house burns down because they think the fire department is woke.
Meanwhile, consumer confidence has plummeted to an eight-month low. People feel the walls closing in, even if they won’t say it out loud.
So why do so many still refuse to see the obvious?
The Great Gaslighting of America
It’s because we’ve been trained to believe that struggling is a personal failure, not a systemic one.
We’re told that if we can’t afford a house, it’s because we’re not working hard enough—not because the housing market is controlled by corporate landlords jacking up prices while real wages remain stagnant.
We’re told that if healthcare bankrupts us, it’s our fault for not picking the right insurance plan, not because our for-profit system prioritizes shareholder dividends over human lives.
We’re told that if we’re struggling, we need to bootstrap harder—even though the very people saying this were born into generational wealth and would collapse if they had to live on $50,000 a year.
And through it all, the billionaires smile, because they know we’re too busy blaming each other to turn our attention toward the real culprits.
Final Reflection: What Happens Next?
The reality is this: things are only becoming more unstable.
- The cost of living keeps climbing.
- The gap between rich and poor is stretching into a canyon.
- And the policies coming from the top are making it worse, not better.
So what do we do?
We start by acknowledging the reality in front of us.
The fight isn’t against each other. It’s against a system that only works for those who already have everything.
And the sooner more people wake up to that fact, the sooner we stop cheering for the very people drowning us.
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