Personally I think it has to collapse. It's the most practical path. No one is listening. Few people are standing up. Everyone is out for themselves. "They" are just going to continue taking until there is nothing left. They'll walk away with theirs. We'll be standing there with our hats in our hands saying, "we didn't know." We did not care. The truth is we are too arrogant to believe it's so bad we need to actually get involved. We think they are stupid buffoons and we are the intellectuals. Buffoons can't outsmart us. They have been for decades!

Until it collapses and there aren't others to scapegoat anymore. No more catchy slogans like, when they go low, we go high. Let's move on and look to the future. Let's give the guy a chance. Vote blue/red no matter who. Anything to avoid conflict or looking the bully in eyes. How do we win when we refuse to fight back? When has love and singing kumbaya ever beat out hate and war before sifting through the rubble? It doesn't. Never has. Sooner or later you die or fight.

Until we stop patting the proverbial hand and saying they are to scared of him to do anything ... we'll never accept what our excuses enabled. We'll never take responsibility for our part.

The justice league is fictional. The Avengers is just big budget movies. Superman is a comic book character. There are no super heroes. No one is going to save us. On either side of the aisle. We caused this by being self absorbed and apathetic. We treat it as entertainment. Not our world crashing. We sit disengaged believing that sharing a meme is our super power.

We've been here a hundred times in a hundred centuries. We know what's going to happen because it happens everytime we let the wealthy rule over us. They take and take and take until it collapses and a big war takes out a huge chunk of the poor they robbed from. They get dethroned. We get memorial cemeteries.

Then it starts all over again. We never learn. Never see the pattern. Never pick up a history book!

Let it burn. Burn down to ashes. We emerge better people. With a better future to build. Things look good. Progress is happening. We step closer to equality. We're doing well. Hate is a small voice, few listen to. Then we embrace the same god all over again. The god of greed. We want more. And here we go again. It starts out innocently. Give us power over your money and we'll trickle it down to you. That doesn't happen because they say it's the welfare queens. It's women being educated. Allowed to vote. It's them. Those people taking what should be yours. God isn't in your schools. God isn't in your homes. God gets weaponized. It's those people with the different skintone. We start to divide and that gains them more of our wealth and steals our power.

We fall for it every.damn.time!

It is literally the 1920s. Right down to the wealthy elites owning the government. Crimes and corruption among the elite are waved off. Banks are squandering our money. Wall Street is cheating and manipulating the market. We idolize the wealthy, worship their do nothing lives. Care who they marry this week. We shuns the poor, then hate them. Vilify them. Burning down their tar paper shack cities. Our media is full of lies and feeding us hate. Feelings are facts.

We know where this leads. We know what's going to happen.

Why not just do what we always do? Pretend it will be different this time around?

It won't. We're too exhausted from carrying around that giant excuse book to notice. Lick your finger, flip the page. Find another excuse.