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The Future Is for Shareholders and Saints
The heathen proletariat was never meant to survive.
They don’t see you. Not really.
If you’re not rich, white, or draped in the sanctimony of religious piety — preferably all three — you’re background noise. A statistic. A talking point. Something to exploit or discard when convenient. This isn’t just hyperbole or anger talking — though there’s plenty of both. It’s structural, deliberate, and backed by money and myth. The rich and the religious (with a heavy overlap in the Republican sphere) operate under the quiet but ruthless assumption that the rest of us are expendable.
It’s not just your finances they want. It’s your future, your vote, your silence. They’ll preach family values while stripping your family’s safety net. They’ll moralize about life while gutting public health, education, and environmental safeguards. Your kids? They’re pawns in their ideological war, footnotes in a tax policy meeting, or meat for a privatized education scam.
And if you happen to be non-white, female, queer, or immigrant? You’re not just expendable — you’re a threat. A deviation from their mold. The white evangelical elite clutch their Bibles in one hand and voter suppression laws in the other. The billionaire class buys senators like Pokémon cards while you debate whether you…
