I recently had a 'eureka moment' which brought me to the blockchain.

For years I fought hard on the digital battlefield for political ideals that I held dearly. I wanted fairness in economics, politics and...well, that's pretty much all that matters at this point, right? I was steeped in the disparity that ravaged my community, a stagnating inner-city decimated by the myopic policy prescriptions of corrupt neoliberal business-owners.

The problems in society run deep and the solutions seemed obvious to me. At the time, Bernie Sanders came to the fore, a name I was familiar with. At the time I was a self-professed political geek, listening to radio shows from the left and the right on a daily basis. I've heard Bernie speak eloquently about these problems we face. He took a no-bullshit plain language approach that speaks directly to the heart of us Nor'Easterners.

I put every single ounce of energy and used what little resources I had to getting this man the Democratic nomination. My social media accounts were converted into Bernie HQs and I spent every single day pushing his populist message while taking swipes at the crooked crone. I saw in real-time that what we were doing was working. But ultimately the reality of the corrupt political system reared its ugly head. No matter how much political activism we did, we were never going to win because the process was rigged from the start.

Now that all of that is said and done we find ourselves falling down a rabbit hole, pushed in by the globalists, multinational corporate interests who so desperately seek to control our minds. I believe that desperation will become their downfall.

Then the light bulb in my head went off. I still have the power to fight back. No matter how many advertising dollars the think-tanks spend, we still have self-determination. We have freedom. The only way we can defeat the centralized power structures is to come to this collective realization.

That's why I'm here, on Steemit. That's why I call myself a Steemian now.

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