SAPFU
Due to SAPFU (Surpassing All Previous F*ck-Ups), we are making it up as we attempt to live with our government's catastrophic incompetence.
Oversight mechanisms have been dismantled as governance and grift merge.
Through privatization, deregulation, defunding, and destabilization, wealth has been rerouted to major corporations and political allies. The freedom that belonged to all of us has been transferred to a select few. State resources have been repurposed not to serve, but to siphon funds for private gain.
The wealth gap, climate collapse, and the rise of a convicted felon to the presidency happened under the watch of both major parties who cling to corporate money while we face extinction-level crises. Climate fueled disasters are a reality that exacerbate existing inequalities, driving neighbors out while homes fall into disrepair or are destroyed.
According to Albert Einstein, we cannot solve these problems the same way we created them. In other words, using fear and unhappiness to justify cruelty and destruction won't work. The rich have rigged the system. The wealthiest Americans have shaped tax codes, rewritten labor law, purchased influence, and shielded their assets.
As we lose land, labor, and dignity, we must now look to each other. Mutual aid networks surged during the pandemic. Teachers, nurses, transit workers, and tenants organized. This belief in our collective good is not gone. It is damaged. But it can be rebuilt.
As bad as Trump’s “Big BAD Bill” is for working people, the real threat posed by this administration is the destruction of democracy, trust, and the planet. Local organizing and solidarity are how we reclaim America.
Bond with your community, make it stronger. Boycott corporations, it impacts them where it hurts. Support your local farm, farmer, and farmers markets. Cut up your credit cards. We need to be ready to tackle problems on our own—prepare for disasters, grow our own food, resist corporate capture, and obstruct authoritarianism whenever possible.