Time to Revolt

It would seem that the higher ups don’t give a fuck about us. With abortion bans and constant shootings in the States. With the absurd cost of living and continuous poverty wages in probably both countries. With the lack of care around the climate crisis, free healthcare, and minority rights and protections, it’s clear that the people in charge don’t give a damn. 
    I don’t know about you, but I’ve had it. I am at my breaking point and I know others are too. We are being insulted, degraded, ignored every single day that we face these issues because the few assholes on top refuse to serve. Why are we to work for shoddy wages that make the rich richer but barely afford us a place to live whilst dealing with the reality that a good chunk of us aren't even seen as equals? What the shit are we doing? Everywhere is short staffed because working is a sham. All the doctors are gone because even they can’t afford to live here. Having a child is a curse now in a first world country. Not having eight roommates is a luxury. The fucking planet is cooking us alive in the summer and drowning us in the winter. And I’m supposed to be happy because minimum wage went up forty six cents. 
    Lads, I say we start over. The Boomers failed us. The Silent Generation failed them. History keeps repeating itself but this will be the last time it does because either humanity ends or we put an end to the cycle. We are out of time. No more being polite. No more tolerating our elders, our superiors, our authority figures who disrespect us. Nay, enough is enough. They betrayed us one too many times. But now, we are armed with all the knowledge of the world at our fingertips. We have the internet and so we have connections with one another across the globe.  We have access to learn all that has happened so we don’t make the same mistakes everyone before us has made. We can change things for good. If we overthrow everything. 
    Why shouldn’t the minorities, the poor, the young be in charge when we actually see and experience the things these fluffy politicians and CEOs can only imagine? When we have the longest to live and therefore suffer the consequences of our actions the most. It’s our turn to turn the tides, to turn the tables, actually no, we should be flipping tables. We should be breaking down doors and flooding the streets with our angsty fed up selves. Aye, the protesting and wreaking havoc will make others hate us and our cause, but the people that hate us for that already hated us before. When the “freedom convoy” rampaged through the country, I didn’t hate those idiots any more than before because I already hated them and their fight. We will be despised no matter what, but at least we will be heard and seen and impossible to crush. Our voices will be deafening, our numbers overwhelming. Worldwide we will stand together and stand our ground and battle for a better tomorrow. 
    Our current way of life is not sustainable. It is ready to falter. Our selfishness has divided us, separated us. Humans are not better as lone wolves, we are pack animals and in order to survive, thrive, function, and grow, we need to work together. Enough of this “well it doesn’t affect me” mentality. We need to lift each other up together rather than beat down others and stand on their backs so we alone can touch the sky. If you care not for the future of this world, of our race, then do us all a favour and step down. It seems like a lot of folk with that mentality tend to be in charge of everything and now it’s time to surrender. It is our turn, the time belongs to us. 
    Let us dethrone the tyrants and dictators and greedy bastards who strive to keep us at the bottom. They have robbed us of our motivation, our energy, our will to exist. How many of us are left wanting to do absolutely nothing because we are drained? How many of us no longer work because it’s pointless? How many of us have dropped hobbies and activities and extracurriculars because we are too exhausted and overworked? How many are ready to jump off a bridge, a building, in front of a train because the concept of living another day in this hellscape is unbearable? I look at my future and all I see is constant work for weak payoff and no rest or accomplishment or peace of mind. I think of that fact that I’m poor and probably always will be and can’t even afford to do what I would want to make a life from. I think of the fact that I am not the only one thinking that and that my friends too are suffering the same thoughts. Too many of us are being wasted and it’s due to a small portion of our human race. We can conquer them, either by dueling them now or outliving them and making better afterward. 
    Whether it's actively throwing bricks or writing it out for others to see like me, do it. Leave a pile of shit outside a politician's door like some old-growth protesters did. March down the streets with banners. Shout into a megaphone in a public place. Talk about it with friends. Think about it in silence. Do what you are comfortable doing, but let us all do it together. Let us become hazards to these fiends either gently or aggressively. It can be the Rosa Parks approach or the first Pride parade approach. We need just be obnoxious enough to force change. 
    Governments, billionaires, CEOs and business owners, people who don’t care about anybody else, this is a declaration of war. Fix this shit now, surrender instead, or face the wrath of millions of suffering individuals. Our sanity is about to crack, our rage about to explode. All the little people you rely on to sustain your cushy lives are ready to riot.
    For those of us who want a secure, livable tomorrow, we must fight to claim it. We must make it known that we outnumber the people doing this to us. We must take things into our own hands. From the broken chaos, we will build a better society with the young and ambitious minds that we have. We will leave this planet cleaner than when we found it, and leave this race stronger than when we were born into it. No more tolerating shitty conditions and lowering expectation bars. We deserve better, we are worth more, and we can make a difference. 
Grab your sword, your pen, your megaphone, your banner and let us go to war.