Ohio Mama puts heart on her sleeve -- Coup not yet Averted.

[Zenaan Harkness]

"I Am Done, I'll Not Vote Again" - One Middle-American Mom Rages At 'Real-Life Idiocracy'
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/11/07/i-am-done/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/i-am-done-ill-not-vote-again-one-middle-american-mom-rages-real-life-idiocracy

I was born at the end of Gen X and the beginning of the Millennial
Generation, and grew up in a middle class town. Life was good. Our home
was modest but birthdays and Christmas were always generous, we went on
yearly vacations, had 2 cars, and there was enough money for me to take
dance classes and art lessons and be in Girl Scouts.

My 1940s born Dad raised me to be patriotic and proud, to love the war
bird airplanes of his era as much as he does, and to respect our flag
and our country as a sacred thing. I grew up thinking that being an
American was the greatest gift a person could have. I grew up thinking
that our country was as strong, and honest and true as my Dad. I grew up
thinking I was free.

As an adult, I have witnessed the world I grew up in fall to ruin. I
have watched as our currency and our economy have been shamelessly
corrupted beyond redemption. Since we’ve been married, my husband and I
TWICE had our meager investment savings gutted by the market that we
were told to invest in, now that pensions no longer exist and we working
stiffs are on our own. We will be working until we die, because the
Social Security we’ve been forced to pay into has also been robbed from
under us.

I have watched as our elected officials enter Congress as ordinary folks
and leaves as multi millionaires. I have watched my blue collar husband
get up at an ungodly hour every day and come home with an aching back
that we pray will hold out long enough to get him to old age in one
piece. Outside of shoes, socks and underwear, almost everything my
family wears was bought used. We’ve been on one vacation in 12 years.

We don’t have cell phones, or cable, or any sort of streaming services,
just a landline and internet. We hardly ever eat out. Our house is 1400
square feet, no air conditioning. I cook from scratch and I can and I
garden and I raise chickens for eggs and meat and I moonlight selling
things on Etsy. Still it is barely enough to pay the bills that go up
every year while service quality and the longevity of goods goes down.
What I just described is the life you can live on 60K a year without
going into debt.

At last calculation, when you consider all of the federal, state and
local taxes plus registration and user fees, Medicare and SS payroll
taxes, almost a third of what my family earns is stolen by the govt each
year. What’s left doesn’t go far, just enough to cover the basics and
save a little for when the wolf howls at the door.

I watched as my family’s health insurance was gutted and destroyed. Our
private market insurance, which we had to have because my husband’s
employer is too small to have a group plan, was made illegal. We were
left with the option of either buying an Obamacare plan with
unaffordable deductibles and insanely ridiculous out of pocket maxes, or
paying the very gov’t that destroyed our healthcare a fine for not
buying the gov’t mandated plan that we cannot afford. We now have short
term insurance that isn’t really insurance at all, and I live in fear of
one of us getting injured or sick with anything I can’t fix from the
medicine cabinet.

I have watched as education, which was already sketchy when I was a kid,
became an all out joke of wholly unmathematical math, gold stars for
all, and self-loathing anti-Americanism. My family has taken an enormous
financial hit as I stay home to home school our child. At least she’ll
be able to do old-fashioned math well enough to see how much they are
screwing her. A silver lining to every cloud, I guess.

I’ve sat by and held my tongue as I was called deplorable and a bitter
clinger and told that I didn’t build that. I’ve been called a racist and
a xenophobe and a chump and even an “ugly folk.” I’ve been told that I
have privilege, and that I have inherent bias because of my skin color,
and that my beloved husband and father are part of a horrible
patriarchy. Not one goddamn bit of that is true, but if I dare say
anything about it, it will be used as evidence of my racism and white
fragility.

Raised to be a Republican, I held my nose and voted for Bush, the
Texas-talking blue blood from Connecticut who lied us into 2 wars and
gave us the unpatriotic Patriot Act. I voted for McCain, the sociopathic
neocon songbird “hero” that torpedoed the attempt to kill the Obamacare
that’s killing my family financially. I held it again and voted for
Romney, the vulture capitalist skunk that masquerades as a Republican
while slithering over to the Democrat camp as often as they’ll tolerate
his oily, loathsome presence.

And I voted for Trump, who, if he did nothing else, at least gave a
resounding Bronx cheer to the richly deserving smug hypocrites of DC.
Thank you for that Mr. President, on behalf of all of us nobodies. God
bless you for it.

And now I have watched as people who hate me and mine and call for our
destruction blatantly and openly stole the election and then gaslighted
us and told us that it was honest and fair. I am watching as the GOP
does NOTHING about it. They’re probably relieved that upstart Trump is
gone so they can get back to their real jobs of lining their pockets and
running interference for their corporate masters. I am watching as the
media, in a manner that would make Stalin blush, is silencing anyone who
dares question the legitimacy of this farce they call democracy. I know,
it’s a republic, but I am so tired of explaining that to people I might
as well give in and join them in ignorance.

I will not vote again; they’ve made it abundantly clear that my voice
doesn’t matter. Whatever irrational, suicidal lunacy the nanny states
thinks is best is what I’ll get. What it decided I need is a geriatric
pedophile who shouldn’t be charged with anything more rigorous than
choosing between tapioca and rice pudding at the old folks home, and a
casting couch skank who rails against racism while being a descendant of
slave owners.

I’m free to dismember a baby in my womb and kill it because “my body my
choice”, but God help me if I won’t cover my face with a germ laden
Linus-worthy security blanket or refuse let them inject genetically
altering chemicals into my body or my child’s. I can be doxed, fired,
shunned and destroyed for daring to venture that there are only 2
genders as proven by DNA, but a disease with a 99+% survival rate for
most humans is a deadly pandemic worth murdering an economy over.
Because science. Idiocracy is real, and we are living it. Dr. Lexus
would be an improvement over Fauci.

I am done. Don’t ask me to pledge to the flag, or salute the troops, or
shoot fireworks on the 4th. It’s a sick, twisted, heartbreaking joke,
this bloated, unrecognizable corpse of a republic that once was ours.

I am not alone. Not sure how things continue to function when millions
of citizens no longer feel any loyalty to or from the society they live
in.

I was raised to be a lady, and ladies don’t curse, but fuck these
motherfuckers to hell and back for what they’ve done to me, and mine,
and my country. All we Joe Blow Americans ever wanted was a little patch
of land to raise a family, a job to pay the bills, and at least some
illusion of freedom, and even that was too much for these human
parasites. They want it all, mind, body and soul. Damn them. Damn them
all.

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