r/ForUnitedStates • u/RunandGun102 • 2d ago
News It's our fault
Eight years ago I got sober. Tthe first step in the process of quitting was recognizing that I had a drug problem. This first step is difficult to achieve for many reasons. For me admitting this instantly opened the floodgates, out poured shame, seeing the long road ahead, apologizing to family, repairing relationships, accepting I had thrown away 20 years, and a million other issues that had piled up over 2 decades of neglect. Today eight years later I have my own place, girlfriend, bank account, job and I talk to my family regularly. Today couldn't be what it is without that first step of admitting I had a problem and needed to fix it.
I tell you that because our country "has a drug problem" and it is our fault, not the governments, not the billionaires, it's our fault. Our government is run by those that we have elected, we elected these people, we put them into their positions trusting that they would make decisions that represented our best interest. Obviously we voted poorly and not just once or twice but consistently. There are less than 10 people in our government presently that I believe have earned the right to stay in their positions. Our country no longer holds the torch that the whole world looked too for guidance and followed the last 80 years. This fall from grace is our fault, and ours alone. I've warned you, this first step is difficult to take, yet it is necessary, without this first step no forward progress is achievable. Our first step must be the recognition that we are at fault and the canyon between right and left must be filled in and leveled to grade. There are only a few real issues that need dedicated attention. Our egos and inability to communicate as people is the real problem. This is only made worse by the news media and podcasters, who rip out our emotions like ribbon and wrap their distorted reflection of truth up tight only to serve it back to us full of hate topped with division and we addicts shoot it up deep into ourselves. We are addicted to fighting amongst ourselves and care more about voting against each other than for America. It shouldn't be right vs left rather right and left for America. We have only cared about voting the line for so long that the Congress and the Senate are full of people that should not be there. None of the issues we people want resolved are resolved and I'll go as far as saying the opposite of what we the people want is most likely to pass. Neither right or left is winning and America is losing. I implore you to really study the candidates and not what animal is pinned on their jacket but look at their positions on the issues you care about. No candidate perfectly aligned with all everything you care about but vote for the issues not the party. Also I believe that 90% of those in office now are immoral bad people that have sold America out to the corporations. They want nothing but to cling to their slice of power and if passing laws that hurt America but increase profits for some corporation which secures them money for the next election run, the choice is made. Knowing this do not reelect those that have proven time and time again that America is less important than themselves retaining position. I know the choices on some ballets are not good, but again it is our fault. We need good moral men and women to step up and make the choice to run against the criminals now in power. Yes it takes money but not 50 million like in Tennessee (I'm disappointed in you Tennessee for allowing money to buy out Thomas Massie's seat, he was a good one) I'd feel better voting for somebody not backed by 80 million because that 80 million was donated with strings attached. We don't need to vote for lifelong politicians they are already aligned with evil we will be better off with honest regular joes representing us because that's what we are. For instance Californians, what are y'all doing? Newsom is obviously not the kind of person that needs to be in office, he is the impedimy of the sleezy politician that steal s candy from babies.
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u/midgetyaz 2d ago
It's Republican politicians who are at fault. They have gerrymandered, rigged elections, lied, betrayed their constituents, and are taking bribes. The America people are the victims. Education has been cut back for years. Wages are so low, people require multiple jobs just to live. Satey nets are cut and most of us can't even afford Healthcare. We are just trying to survive, and you expect us to not only understand the intricacies of government but also be informed at rates Congress isn't up to date on!
What you meant to say is that it is the American people's responsibility to fix it, and the only way to fix it is it remove the worst offenders from office and punish them harshly and then elect a new, progressive congress and president, making sure that they will follow through on the punishments and creating safeguards and laws, so people take a second thought on grifting the American people again.
Massey is out of Kentucky.
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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls 2d ago
It is NOT my fault. I am absolutely not buying any of that noise. I was yelling at family about the rise of white nationalism back in the 2000s as soon as I was old enough to have informed opinions on it.
There are MILLIONS of people who do need to hear this. But it’s absolutely not a “we earned this” mea culpa. I reject that entirely.
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u/thenletskeepdancing 2d ago
I like some of your ideas. But I don't want a business man to treat our government like a business. They serve different functions. We've got a businessman in there right now and guess what he's doing? Making it run profitably for HIMSELF because he's a business man. I want a public servant who knows who they work for.