I'm probably too drunk for this, but i'm going fot it, whether I can see the keyboard or not, 

but man,

What in the name of goodness?

so within twenty some odd years, we went from an unshakeable unity, born from the horrors of sept 11th, 

I can't close my eyes sometimes without seeing bodies sliding from their grip and entering the empty space, clothing flapping in the wind, seared into the consciousness, to Palantir, to Project2025, judicial branch compromised, executive flexing everything it can into authoritarianism, the house and senate crippled, I grew up on dystopian fiction, never thought I'd live it, this is Vonnegut level, a less on the nose Heinlein...

You'd have thought the average American would have the critical thiking skills to stave off all of this, but alas, billions of dollars have gone into propagandizing you otherwise, and the investment has paid off, we're a captive society, capitalism is predicated on infinite growth, Earth is a finite resource, therefore capitalism will kill us all in the name of corporate bonuses, the C.E.O. of Nestle wants to privatize water, water.

    A world where your taxes go up depending on rainfall. monitoring how hydrated you are, how much "company product" makes up your body, a world where everything is a bill, sweat too much? Involuntary aspiration tax...

This is the endgame, it's worse than The Matrix, we all signed up for this, we all read the terms and conditions, we knew continuing this course would lead to a fourth reich coupling racism, money and infiltrating the government, spreading the propaganda of conservatism to draw on a base of the ignorant and racist, and the damned thing is the citizens of Oceania will actually defend Big Brother, will damn any "other" identified with their ingroup and they'll breathlessly, senselessly defend it; state sanctioned murders, prison camps, genocide, they'll stand by it, rain or shine, as some sort of divine right, the poobah with the golden toilet, who is transforming the White House into a gold filigreed brothel has a mandate by and of the people to cover up his role in a pedophile cabal, they weren't kidding when they said he only ran to stay out of jail, now from the presidency he's covering up his involvement with the power of federal agencies.

That pretty much brings us to the present day, the monied class will celebrate and the rest of us will unblinkingly accept it, justify it, and browbeat anyone who questions it, because they're the "Job creators", the "innovators", they definitely don't scale back union protections, slash salaries or give Nazi salutes at presidential inagurations, they'd never knowingly associate with those who'd fund a subversive hard right religious coup to control the government, I can't begin to imagine what it would take to convince anyone otherwise, that all this is a house of cards, a trim sandcastle low on the beach with the tide coming in, moonlight softly overhead to bear witness to what's coming, and it's coming, there's a weirdness in the air, an almost imperceptible whisper that this isn't sustainable, that at some point we'll realize the jig is up, that we've been suckered and programmed from the glow of flashy advertisements and sound bites,

    I try to, 

scratch that, 

I want to believe, that a better world is out there,

Through all of this static and breaking news and exploding rockets creating fireworks in the stratosphere,

like meteors flying through the night,

we are a broken future,

and we had so much potential.