The rise of an explicit oligarch class, political leaders shamelessly using public office as a means of self-enrichment, a decline in living standards, rising inequality & deaths of despair, a collapse in cultural output, truly America is becoming 1990s Russia
They didn’t call it “Sentinel” or “Guardian.”
They called it “Flock.”
As in: something you herd, track, count, and keep from wandering off the reservation.
They see us as livestock.
Zero respect.
This particularly pisses me off because they do not ask it of the athletes that have freedom to express their opinions without serious repercussions… only the ones under the threat of repressive dictatorships