America, You've Been Bought

Adios, American Dream

Let’s start with this: since January 2010, the United States hasn’t been run by elected officials. It’s been run by billionaires, PACs, corporations, and lobbyists—all made legal by a Supreme Court decision called Citizens United.

Justice Scalia and his buddies on the bench said money equals speech. So if you’re rich, you speak louder. If you’re super rich, you speak through megaphones that drown out everything else. If you’re broke? You don’t speak. You get spoken at. That’s not democracy. That’s auction.

What’s happened since?

Our legislative agenda—every bill, every regulation, every loophole—has tilted hard toward the wealthy. We’re talking corporate welfare, Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Oil. The big guys stroll into D.C. with a suitcase full of cash and say, “Hey, let us put fertilizer in the cereal.”

No joke. There are literally chemicals in American food that are illegal in Europe. You wouldn’t let your dog eat this stuff in Norway. But your kids eat it here, because Kellogg’s and Kraft wrote a check.

We chlorinate our chicken.

We stuff shelf-stable snacks with poison to get longer expiration dates.

And politicians smile, say thank you, and sign the bill.

Meanwhile, 17 million Americans are losing Medicaid. Rural hospitals are shutting down. And instead of fixing anything, the government decides it’s cheaper to hand out hush money to the hospitals than to keep people healthy. Because the money? It’s already spoken for. It’s going to the top.

The core lie is this: that we have equal opportunity in America. We do not.

If you grow up rich, you get great public schools. If you grow up poor, especially in inner cities, you get passed through the system with no skills, no support, and no shot.

That’s not socialism to point out. That’s reality. And no, I don’t believe in equal outcomes. If you build something great, you should get paid. But you should also get a chance. And we’re not even giving that anymore.

So people are angry. And when people hurt, they act out. They get desperate. They steal. They vote for chaos. They vote for strongmen who promise revenge and blame someone else.

Trump is the symptom. Citizens United is the disease.

This is how it works:

• Gerrymandering rigs elections before they start.

• Dark money floods the campaigns.

• Candidates don’t appeal to the middle. They preach to the extremes.

• The left gets self-righteous and cancels half the country.

• The right lies, grifts, and burns the house down.

Then everyone logs onto social media to scream about how it’s all someone else’s fault.

But here’s the truth: You cannot cancel 80 million people. You cannot meme your way out of inequality. You cannot bomb your way to fairness. And you cannot call it a meritocracy when the deck is this stacked.

So what do we do?

We kill the root causes. Start with:

1. End Citizens United. Corporations aren’t people. Billionaires aren’t a voting bloc.

2. End gerrymandering. Mixed districts = moderate candidates.

3. Invest in schools. Real ones. Not test factories.

4. Make healthcare work like it’s supposed to. Preventative, accessible, fair.

5. Stop pretending trickle-down economics ever worked.

America isn’t Norway. We’re not built for collectivism. We’re built for risk, for hustle, for reinvention. But when the entire system is tilted toward wealth, even the risk-takers can’t compete. They just end up broke, bitter, and blaming immigrants.

And yeah, about Trump.

He broke all the rules. He mocked the disabled, vilified immigrants, divided everyone. And he still got elected. That tells you something scary: character doesn’t matter to enough people anymore. Or maybe it never did.

But here’s the twist: most of those 80 million Trump voters? They don’t like that part of him. They’re not signing up for the cruelty. They’re signing up to torch the system they believe forgot them.

The Democrats, instead of listening, tried to cancel them. Instead of organizing, they scolded. They ran weak candidates with no ground game, no message, no plan. They couldn’t even run Kamala properly. She had 107 days to defeat a global brand with 100% name recognition. No chance.

You don’t win elections by yelling “You’re racist!” at swing states. You win by making their lives better.

And yeah, sometimes it means working with people you don’t like. Like hiring the SS after WWII. Not because it feels good. Because it works. Because sometimes practical beats perfect.

We need leaders tough enough to deal with that.

Stop canceling people. Start winning them back.

Fix the damn system.

Or go back to eating poison cereal while billionaires buy your government on sale.

Of course, nothing of this has any chance of happening, until Trump is dead.