We live in an era…

where corrupt police officers take paid vacations for committing murder and other terrible offenses (another, another, another) and ordinary people can spend several years in prison for the victimless “crime” of owning marijuana, but the FDA is cool with you treating your depression with horse tranquilizer and would rather you feed big tobacco companies by smoking cigarettes rather than helping yourself quit with a safe alternative.

We live in an era where even an innocent autistic man isn’t safe from the guns that protect and serve us; but you can only expect as much from low IQ cops, especially when the Supreme Court has already invalidated any misconceptions you had that the police are here for our safety.

No, we actually live in an era where the police are here to oppress the people and protect their own, where 96% of complaints against officers are ignored.

We live in an era where the impoverished people of Rio De Janeiro are forced out of abandoned buildings to make room for the wealthy to enjoy the Olympics and struggling, low income Rio homeowners have their neighborhoods demolished to be replaced by luxury hotels and Olympic buildings, one woman’s home destroyed just to be replaced by a big Brazilian flag.

We live in an era where neither of the two most widely known candidates for U.S. presidency have our support, nor do they even remotely live up to the principles our Founding Fathers hoped would endure.

People, we live in an era where we should be fed up. This rhetoric is not the same Good vs. Evil rhetoric that tries to influence you to “Never Forget” 9/11 and to kill countless more innocent in retaliation. It’s not the one that wants you to support building a wall along the U.S. border to keep out filthy Mexicans, or that wants to remove you from your right to arm and protect yourself in the interest of “safety”. This is the the real Good vs. Evil. Let us not forget our own natural morality amidst all the things we read, see on TV, are told in schools, or are forced upon us by the hand of oppressors. We all inherently know the difference between right and wrong, just and unjust. Whether in a position power or not, it is never OK to simply be obedient without assessing the ethical integrity of one’s actions.