The Choice You Made

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You weren’t fooled, you voted for the Right because you liked the lie.

You liked how it felt, the certainty, the righteous anger, the simple explanation for why everything seemed to be falling apart.

You liked having someone to blame who wasn't you, wasn't your neighbors, wasn't the complex web of choices and systems actually shaping our lives.

But you knew it was a lie. You always knew.

You knew the rage was performed, the strength was theater, the solutions were smoke. You knew the person on stage didn't understand governance—only how to turn your frustration into their power, your desperation into their profit.

You chose it anyway.

It was a trade. You traded responsibility for grievance, complexity for comfort, the hard work of citizenship for the easy satisfaction of being told all your problems were someone else's fault.

You want freedom?

Real freedom isn't the absence of responsibility, it's the structure that makes choice possible.

It's bridges connecting towns and cities, schools that educate better generations, hospitals that heal, courts that enact justice.

Freedom is the thousand invisible systems preventing society from becoming the kind of chaos where rights become meaningless words on worthless paper.

Building the structure and systems underlying freedom requires something you've proven unwilling to provide: Showing up.

You need spine to show up, wisdom to invest in futures you might not see, basic decency to care about people beyond your immediate circle.

But why do the work when instead you can choose “leaders” who promise you civilization's benefits without paying the price. Who tell you taxes are theft while campaigning on roads built with tax money.

Con artists who convinced you the government is the problem while running for government office, collecting government paychecks, rigging government systems for their donors!

When this predictably leads to failure—when infrastructure crumble, schools struggle, hospitals close—you won’t blame the people you've elected to destroy these things.

NO!

You blame immigrants, liberals, anyone except the hollow men you've empowered to tear down everything that might have protected you.

This is moral collapse in real time. Your choice to embrace comfortable lies over uncomfortable truths. Your gradual surrender of every principle you claimed to hold in exchange for the promise someone else would be hurt worse than you.

You call it strength, but strength isn't standing alone in ruins you helped create. Strength isn't refusing to build what you claim to want to protect.

Strength is showing up. Doing the work. Caring enough about the future you are willing sacrifice something today to make it possible.

The problem is, this requires growing up. But like the petulant child you elected for office, you do not want to grow up.

You want to be a citizen without citizenship, a patriot without patriotism, free without paying freedom's price.

You want others to do the work while you collect the benefits, to make hard choices while you complain about consequences, to build the future while you burn the present.

You refuse to acknowledge you owe your existence to those who chose to build, sacrifice, and pay the price for the infrastructure, governance, medicine, cooperation—built and maintained by people who don't get to throw tantrums every time reality challenges their worldview.

You call us weak, but we're holding the line while you burn it all down. You call us sheep, but we understand freedom isn't the right to ignore what makes freedom possible.

You call us traitors, but we're still trying to build the country you claim to love but refuse to support.

The collapse you keep voting for is coming.

When the systems you've undermined finally fail, when the infrastructure you've refused to fund crumbles, when the institutions you've attacked break—you won't be the strong survivor you posture online and imagine in your wet dreams.

You'll be the first to fall.

Because strength isn't measured by what you can destroy, but by what you're willing to build. And you've proven, election after election, that you'd rather tear everything down than do any work to make anything better.

The rest of us will endure because we understand something you've forgotten: we rise or fall together.

Community isn't weakness, it's the only thing that's ever mattered, it’s what protected our young until they were old enough, cared for our eldest, and formed the basis for the world we managed to build.

But you chose to stand alone. You chose to burn bridges, destroy systems, elect losers whose only qualification was their willingness to break what others built.

Don’t be surprised when you get exactly what you voted for!

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