Just a reality check type comment. I've seen many comments over the years about people needing to move out of overly restrictive states. While I don't disagree and I've made the same statements in the past, I no longer do. It's not always that simple.
Aging parents, infirm family members, spousal desires for family proximity, kids in school, duty location requirements of lifelong careers, financial obligation to a home that won't sell, or to business loans, and a whole host of other factors may limit a person's ability to move or relocate their families. Just move to a different state isn't always possible.
You have no basic freedoms, no right to privacy, and no constitutional protection. Haven't for decades.
The French are having massive national riots over increased gas taxes. They freaking stormed the presidential palace.
The French!
If you even began to try to organize something like that here, the government will detect the chatter and you will be arrested.
I do not agree. We have the right to peaceful protest and the freedom of speech. Just because no one is listening to you doesn't mean we don't have the right to say what we want. I don't know all the details of the French protests, but storming a federal building or any building, much less the presidential residence is not peaceful protest, and of course it would be illegal and put down in this country. It isn't 1750.
Americans are spineless drones for the bidding of the government.
Some but certainly not all.
This past election was rife with fraud with 120% voter participation in some areas. And no one cared
I'm pretty sure there is a big scandal about that and it's being investigated with several revotes being discussed, so I think people do care.
America has become a sad joke.
I can see you are angry and disgusted by the things you see happening in this country, and frankly I'm guessing that if we had a one on one conversation, we'd agree on most of them. However, in the immortal words of Roland Deschain "The world has moved on." The world is a totally different place than it was 20 or 30 years ago. That is a really short time to see the massive changes, new threats, and overall enhanced decadence and decline of American culture that we have seen in that timeframe. Are we going to throw up our hands and just say "America is a joke and that ship has sailed.", or are we going to try and continue to be heard by voting, writing our representatives, teaching our kids, and for those able, being ghosts in the machine trying to do the right thing and enact change where we can? Personally, I plan to carry on and do what I can.
I'm not trying to tell you how to feel and certainly not what to do. I'm just saying don't lose hope.