This government is not designed to help people but to serve as an organ to redistribute the people's wealth from the bottom up.

Any gesture otherwise is only intended to keep people from understanding this and realizing how angry they should be.

It does not have to be this way. We can have an actual government for and by the people that serves public good rather than a system that plunders our wealth and sells out our well-being.

It can be different.

It has to be different.

For decades now there has been an economic consensus that wealth is best served being handed over to the wealthy and allowing the powerful to operate based on their own interests.

That consensus has to be broken. If it isn't, fascism and economic collapse are inevitable.

This austerity is artificial.

This suffering and inequality is by design.

We can live better lives than this. We can have a better society than this. And this current path is completely unsustainable anyway.

The pandemic made it very clear. The fates of the wealthy and powerful are vastly prioritized over the rest of us.

Heading into the new year, we have to recognize that ugly truth and fight to change things before it's too late.

It's not too late, but the clock is ticking.