After years of eating garbage multiple times a day, not caring about the consequences, you finally look in the mirror… and there it is, a fat blob of what you once were staring back at you.
Once, you had a healthy body. You took care of your temple daily. When and why did you become numb and negligent?
The way back? It’s simple: eat better, consume fewer calories, and exercise.
But that’s not today’s mentality.
Now, we have seen the light on the cover of a magazine or from an Instagram influencer. We want to inject our way back to what we once were, no discipline, no sacrifice, just instant results.
We want a shortcut. A pill or shot. Something simple, effortless and not cumbersome. A miracle fix to erase years of neglect, bad habits, poor choices, apathy and flat-out not giving a damn.
That mindset or delusion is exactly what’s being applied to our country.
America, once admired, once truly exceptional, has been bloated by decades of corruption: graft, fraud, bribery, embezzlement, and sellouts at every level.
Politicians with hands in every pocket but their own.
Media machines peddling narratives, not truth, hemorrhaging credibility while gaslighting those of us who see clearly through the smoke.
Now we want a fix.
Push a button. Take a pill.
Take the Ozempic shot for democracy.
But like any quick fix, it fades. The time before the quick fix returns. The sickness remains.
Because without real work, without real change, the rot resurfaces, stronger than before.
But here’s the truth:
You can’t cure corruption with a syringe.
You can’t undo decades of rot with a few months of soundbites and slogans.
It could be bumpy.
This recovery might hurt.
It has the potential to be inconvenient.
You might have to skip the takeout. Cut the coffee runs.
Stop throwing money at things you don’t need to impress people you don’t like.
Get off the social media train.
But that’s what sacrifice looks like.
So buckle up.
Strap in.
And for those scared of their own shadows, whether it’s from economic pain or the looming threat of another foolish global war, remember:
Sacrifice now can keep us out of something worse later.
Let’s rebuild this country.
Let’s make it stronger.
Let’s make it respected again.
Because people used to look to the United States of America as a shining city on a hill — a place of freedom, opportunity, and promise.
They still do, to some extent. The opportunities still outweigh the oppression.
We can’t be passive.
We need to keep out the radicals, the agitators, the Communists, Marxists and ideologues who aim to dismantle rather than build.
Sacrifice now… or suffer later.
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