For the 'land of the free', America is really only as free as, say, Russia is. Your president is a mere puppet for the wealthy ruling élite, who actually govern your country. Your government spies on you just as much as Putin does on his people. Regrettably, it is exactly the same in every Western democracy. Democracy is used by the plutocracy to control the masses, not to liberate them. Our only value to them is how hard we work to bring in money for them. Which makes work indentured servitude. For a supposedly intelligent lifeform, it disappoints me greatly that the majority is so poorly educated that it cannot see it lives in a gilded cage, rented from some rich person. We're the only form of life which has to pay to live on our planet, and we destroy the very thing which keeps our species alive, because we need the money just to keep body and soul together. It is this captivity to money and control by money which will ensure that we don't survive as a species in the longer term.
For the 'land of the free', America is really only as free as, say, Russia is. Your president is a mere puppet for the wealthy ruling élite, who actually govern your country. Your government spies on you just as much as Putin does on his people. Regrettably, it is exactly the same in every Western democracy. Democracy is used by the plutocracy to control the masses, not to liberate them. Our only value to them is how hard we work to bring in money for them. Which makes work indentured servitude. For a supposedly intelligent lifeform, it disappoints me greatly that the majority is so poorly educated that it cannot see it lives in a gilded cage, rented from some rich person. We're the only form of life which has to pay to live on our planet, and we destroy the very thing which keeps our species alive, because we need the money just to keep body and soul together. It is this captivity to money and control by money which will ensure that we don't survive as a species in the longer term.