Are you aware that we're making history?

Blood and murder and starving people.

An orange man on his self built pedestal.

It is on the breaking backs of suffering Americans that he stands.

Shouting at people on twitter and spending our taxpayer dollars on his golf score.

I don’t think that any dystopian author could write this.

The longest shutdown in US history, deportations and gauche parties where billionaires and politicians dance, stepping on each other’s toes.

So many people do nothing, too afraid or convinced that these things cant touch them.

Those who stand up are being silenced.

With guns, bribes and lawsuits the government chokes out any form of protest.

We are living through history, and I’ll be damned if I stay silent.

Posted in response to the challenge No Kings.

M. Hank

VT

15 years old

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