Caroline on Need to Know by David Rothkopf

My problem is not a lack of imagination as to what can happen to my country. Quite the opposite for me. I imagine a dystopian future where the American people live is slums; where there are 10’s of millions of homeless and what few babies there are, they live with hunger; the store shelves are bare and food deserts are everywhere across the country; where there is no middle class only very rich (top 1-3%) and very poor); Americans stand in bread lines and go to soup kitchens; people die needlessly from preventable diseases; there are no public schools and only the very rich can afford to educate their children; the US government rules with great military force; young men enlits just so they know where their next meal is coming from; there are lots of military displays as all the money the government has goes into the great military industrial complex; a future where if you are a rebel and you speak against the regime you will be put in a concentration camp, shot or hung; the very rich of course live very well as oligarchs do in such times. I’d go on but as you can see I am aware of where the US is headed…if we don’t figure out how to rid ourselves of this regime. I protest, write letters to congressional leaders, do social media posts, in person speaking to people, but it seems to me while a lot of people ARE WAKING UP, many still don’t believe this is happening and even that it can happen in the US! They don't realize the seriousness of what is happening. They laugh at trump and his sycophants and say he’ll never get away with it, and of course he does time after time! Blame it on main stream media, or the fact that people are scared to say or do anything that brings attention to themselves (just like the Germans under Hitler) as it makes them uncomfortable to deal with this reality. We all need to face the seriousness of this moment in our history. WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!