another essay, this one on Government

Brittany Boles
POS 101
February 4, 2025

Do you feel that the government protects you, or otherwise does things on your behalf?

I believe the idea of government is theoretically to protect, serve, and carry out the will of the people – but in reality, it is a corrupt system of oppression that either outright harms at worst or fails to help at best. I believe the “things it does” are not in any way on my, or any of my peers’, behalf. The government, especially the current United States government and those of our “democratic” allies, heavily influenced by the World Economic Forum, is a self-serving war machine fueled by the servitude of the many to benefit the .01-.05% at the very top of the socioeconomic structure. Any appearance of democracy, of capitalistic opportunity, of free will – is simply a charade backed by a powerful media and money machine. Even the illusion of wealth is a farce; as the Canadian government demonstrated during the now-infamous Trucker Protests during 2020, access to one’s own accumulated wealth can be “turned off” by the government.

Without going into the depths of modern coverups such as widespread election fraud, billions of dollars vanishing from the pentagon and foreign aid payouts, systemic censorship, and the abolition of our fourth amendment rights through the Patriot Act, it is still obvious that the government does not represent the will or best wishes of the people; this is evidenced by global unrest and little-televised but massively-attended demonstrations. The people are and always have been, by and large, anti-war. World War II was “the war to end all wars,” Vietnam was vehemently opposed, and Congress failed to even declare proper war in the middle east for the last two decades due to flimsy motivations and lack of public support – yet war persists.

There is no doubt that what was once idealistically designed as a constitutional, democratic republic for men and their beneficiaries is now a corporate oligarchy; the last presidential administration literally said so on its way out, but global commentators had been ringing the oligarchal alarm bell for years before former President Joe Biden brought the claim to American headlines. Lobbying and Super PACS run rampant, banks and corporations are bailed out while people lose their homes and livelihoods under the weight of debt, we have the worst health in the developing world, and our rates of homelessness, poverty, and crime continue to skyrocket.

All of this is a general reflection without delving into the nuances of class, race, and gender dynamics that continue to be “governed” as a method of control rather than a service to the people. When we consider that women were not even mentioned in our constitution, that only white men had the right to vote, and that we still support systems of forced labor both within our territories (prison systems) and internationally when managed by subsidiaries of our companies (mining; chocolate; coffee; textiles), it would be outrageous to consider our government as a protector or service. Far more accurate to describe the behemoth circus as an oppressive, though occasionally altruistically disguised, force of corruption.