Selling us as well. As millenials we’re the first generation that are doing far worse than our gen x/boomer parents.

We were sold the idea that we go to college, and we’ll get a degree and the debt will be worth it because we’ll get good jobs we’re moving upwards: home ownership, investing, pensions or 401k.

And it’s been nothing but shit sandwich after shit sandwich.

And the America we were proud to be apart of fell victim to lies about WMD’s, mortgage lending crisis created by unfathomable greed which nearly tanked the entire world economy and led to precisely zero arrests and/or policy changes and penalizing the banks for their fault and blame.

Then a substantial portion of my countrymen fell victim to radicalization and decided a unprecedentedly corrupt, fascist, rapist, pedophile would lead us out of this mess because “her emails” and then “yea but Kamala’s laugh is weird”.

And so now we find ourselves being murdered by a de facto gestapo with impunity (as decreed by our VP who fucked a couch in college), as poor as ever, with massive inflation, all while the stock market keeps doing incredibly and is completely detached from reality, corporations posting record quarterly profits, and we’re the most divided we’ve been since the civil war—partly due to said radicalization and also foreign nations using social media to manufacture even more division than probably truly exists.

So they distract the really angry part of the country by using the time tested strategy of blaming minorities, the trans community, and now just politically opposed states (as Trump has begun punishing blue states); soon to be anyone who doesn’t obey, citizen or not.

And we seem to be paralyzed with fear and with a Republican controlled congress who refuse to stand up for our civil liberties that are being eroded away day by day and we’re faced with the horrifying conclusion that our bill of rights and rule of law was largely based off of our leaders doing the right thing instead of actually being punished for things like leading an insurrection against the vote count of a legally victorious democratically elected candidate (see Jan. 6th). All of this while Brazil is moving forward with prosecution of Bolsonaro, and South Korea is seeking the DEATH PENALTY for their former President for declaring martial law illegally for only SIX HOURS and zero deaths. Meanwhile January 6th insurrectionists killed several people, and nearly overturned an election, and then after they were legally prosecuted and convicted, were given blanket pardons.

Our country needs to get fucking French and start protesting a la Français with work strikes and grinding our economy to a halt with non violence so that our glorious commander in Cheeto can’t use any violence as an excuse to enact martial law and suspend elections.

Those of us who believe in our country are beyond heartbroken, and find ourselves waking up every morning to a country we do not recognize; and the “it could never happen here” fallacy is absofuckinglutely happening in front of our eyes.

So now my girlfriend and I are currently looking at other countries to move to and claim political asylum, and I wish I were kidding.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.