The biggest tell of all of this is that we aren't even called Citizens anymore....

We're referred to as Consumers. Our economy is based on our ability (a combination of our desire and our means) to consume - to constantly spend money. As our means have been reduced through stagnating wages, increasing costs in healthcare and education, we have been offered the teet of the lender. In order to keep the music going we must now live beyond our means.

A citizen thinks - about their roles and responsibility, about their actions and choices, and about those around them. A consumer is simply sold what they are told they want, whether it's a car, the American Dream, freedom, fuck, we are even sold the idea that our votes are our own and that they matter.

The truth is we have been bought, in pretty much every way.