AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

Really USA, how does anyone pretend this is OK?

We pretend a LOT of things are OK.

• School shootings comes to mind.
• laws around what women can do with their own bodies.
• Sacrifice of the environment for industry, all in the name of "jobs".
• Starvation.
• Politicians and presidents doing obviously illegal stuff and citizens unable to do anything about it.
• American military killing with abandon all over the world.
• Police brutality and systematic violations of our rights, with little to no accountability.
• Our standards for clean food being less than everyone elses.
• Religious supremacy being tolerated, even encouraged. (Fuck your moments of silence, fuck your thoughts and prayers, fuck your pledges of allegience too while we're at it)
• controlled media.
• Book banning.
• the "war" on drugs when other methods would have been much more effective.
• whistleblower protections dismantled.
• violence against protesters, and the existence of "protest zones" which disallows protests entirely in most areas.
• continual threats of violence and domestic terrorism by the political right, never with any accountability.
• oppression of anyone who says they are anti-fascist (antifa).
• a political system complteely captured by bribery and foreign interests, with ~1% correlation to what citizens want. There is no representation in "representitive democracy" here. Its all a big joke. We're barely even a "republic" anymore.

And its not all republicans doing it-- although much more them than the dems-- although the dems are sliding really far rightward pretty quickly and its hard to see how it ever will be allowed to go back left.