How Much More Can We Accept?
Supposedly, one of the catalysts for the American Revolutionary War was the Boston Tea Party. The English government had been levying taxes on the colonies through the Townshend Acts – and the colonists took offense. On the night of December 16, 1773, a number of them boarded a ship moored in the harbor carrying a massive load of tea, and dumped it all in the harbor.
In contemporary times, the average American really hasn’t been about that life. There have been no acts of commercial sabotage on the scale of the Boston Tea Party since, well since the Boston Tea Party. It’s in the spirit of this that I ask just how much injustice is the modern American willing to endure?
Here are 25 things we turn a blind eye to:
25. Lobbyists Writing Laws: Special interest groups and big corporations literally write some of the bills that our Congress then votes on.
24. The "Revolving Door": Government officials who regulated industries (like banking or defense) often take high-paying jobs at the same companies. If YOU anticipated a 6 figure salary for a job that’s nearly guaranteed, would you pass regulation that would hurt your future employer?
23. Endless War Spending: Billions of taxpayer dollars sent overseas for foreign wars when a third of that money could be reinvested in infrastructure improvement projects that would be an economic super-catalyst.
22. Insider Trading for Congress: Members of Congress insider trading using non-public information they learn in their committees, a crime for everyone else.
21. Crippling Student Loan Debt: The federal government profiting from student loans that can’t be discharged in bankruptcy.
20. Bailouts for Big Corporations: The government using taxpayer money to rescue large banks and companies from debt and insolvency.
19. Politicians Ignoring Science: Elected officials dismissing scientific facts about things like climate change, pandemics, or pollution for political/business agendas.
18. Mass Surveillance: The government regularly collecting phone and internet records of millions of Americans without a warrant.
17. Gerrymandering: Politicians drawing bizarrely shaped voting district maps to guarantee their own party wins elections.
16. Citizens United Ruling: The Supreme Court allowing corporations and unions to spend unlimited money on political campaigns, giving enormous political influence to a very small number of wealthy entities.
15. Civil Asset Forfeiture: Police being able to take and keep your cash, car, or house without even charging you with a crime, forcing you to go to court to prove it's yours.
14. The Military-Industrial Complex: A close partnership between the defense industry, the Pentagon, and Congress that profits from constant war and high military spending.
13. Politicians Getting Rich in Office: Many members of Congress arriving with modest wealth and becoming multi-millionaires while in office, raising questions about their true motives.
12. Corporate Subsidies for Polluters: The government giving taxpayer money (subsidies and tax breaks) to oil and gas companies that are making record profits and damaging the environment.
11. Uncompromising Partisanship: A dysfunctional political system where party loyalty is more important than passing laws that actually help people.
10. The Government Enabled Opioid Crisis: Drug companies knowingly pushed addictive painkillers while regulators looked the other way, leading to hundreds of thousands of American deaths.
9. A Broken Electoral Process: Both major parties make it harder for third-party or independent candidates to compete, and experts believe that election results can be manipulated.
8. 2-Tiered Criminal Justice System: The wealthy and powerful are not held accountable under the law in the same way as ordinary citizens.
7. Skyrocketing National Debt: The government continuously spending far more money than it takes in, passing a massive, unsustainable debt onto future generations of Americans.
6. The Prison-Industrial Complex: Over-policing the citizenry to the largest prison population in the world, with private prison companies lobbying for laws that keep their cells full.
5. Weaponized Government Agencies: The FBI, IRS, and DOJ being used to target the political enemies of whoever is in power.
4. An Unsecured Border: The government failing to control who and what enters the country, seen by some as a fundamental failure of its most basic duty.
3. Censorship & "Cancel Culture" Debates: Government using big tech for censoring or suppressing free speech.
2. Politicians Violating Their Own Laws: Many laws passed by Congress clearly do not apply to the politicians who create them.
1. A Rigged System for the Rich and Powerful: The entire system—economic, political, and legal—is fundamentally stacked in favor of a small elite, and that the vote of an ordinary citizen no longer matters.
This is what we deal with-
and they threw the tea in the harbor for FAR less than this.