As a Nation Slowly Falls

I watch in horror, as the place I call home changes before my eyes. The evidence is so plain to see for me, but many refuse its existence.

Corporations nurturing themselves, by suckling off the government tit. I picture a beautiful vibrant creature with many heads, and numerous tits, all of them occupied by a corporation, bank, or politician. More are coming, but where shall they go? As they approach closer, one tit becomes two, and they greedily begin to take their nourishment. They were fat as they approached, but now grow fatter, as they take their stolen nourishment. On the other side of this animal is one tit, and many faceless beings struggle to get at it. This tit does not split into two as the ones on the front of the animal, this tit remains only one, and the animal seems to struggle to ignore its existence, and the existence of the skinny, starving, who so desperately crave nourishment, at its backside. At times it is momentarily distracted as the numbers multiply at its backside. It then allows drops of nourishment from this back tit, as soon as the numbers at its back dwindle the nourishment is shut down, as if the meager drops it was providing on its backside was too much of a sacrifice for the greedy at its front to sustain.

Police enforcing the will of the wealthy. I picture an army, so strong in numbers, and with weapons capable of immense destruction. At its backside there are people who have grown fat, they bark orders at this army, which it follows without question. At the army’s front is a crowd that that is so immense that it dwarfs the size of even this great army. The army divides this crowd into smaller groups, and then attacks the smaller groups with great force. The portion of the crowd not divided yet stares in horror, and voices their displeasure, but they continue to stand and watch. As I watch this I cannot help but imagine that if it is to continue that the large crowd will continue to dwindle in size, until it becomes nothing. Many in the crowd now huddle among each other, the army sees them as no longer a threat, and the army now ignores them. The vast army continues to split the portion of the crowd that stands against them into smaller groups, and they continue to decimate the smaller groups. The rest of the crowd continues to stand and watch.