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You know what's crazy to think about? Fundamentally, the United States was founded on large companies that came in and established themselves into the roots of America. We watched as companies built railroads which cities would either build around, or die off--then we saw those same companies 1/X

2/X Work their ways into local government, and eventually federal government. It's subtle and an uncommon topic to discuss, but it became much more obvious when our government moved further towards the pandering of these wealthy companies and eventual elites in corporations. We saw gradually...

3/X as our government slowly began to work less and less for us, as citizens, while our education didn't change and kept pushing us as citizens into complacency as we lost more and more power. Our government put a price-tag on our lives and votes with the installation of systems like...

4/X health-care, and policies that made corporations people--with voices to be used in political discourse. It may seem like this is a new thing, but our history was only told in a way that the wealthy cared for it to be told. We briefly cover in our education the exploitation of the working class..

5/X and more so, the exploitation of our children, with little to no regulations existing in the the 1800's to early 1900's (and even now today). We are systematically locked in an Oligarchy perpetuated by Capitalism; with a government and media that are owned by the rich...

7/X after the era of slavery, after the era of Jim Crow, after the dismantling of systematic segregation of our brothers and sisters in humanity; but in reality, that multi-tiered system of oppression grew, and it now encompasses far more than the minorities of the past...

8/X our oppression is now targeted at the poor, at the losers of capitalism that even in their entire life-time, could never make as much as an elite would make on a good day. We are suffering and dying in systems that are geared against us, but our government has us focused on the culture war...

9/X That the elites perpetuate through our government and media, instead of focusing on the class-war, and the exponential disconnect between the brothers and sisters of America, that keep us fighting amongst ourselves, while those same elites, walk over us and what will eventually be our graves...