The power of myth

America is slowly falling apart. It's like a slow motion demolition where reverberations are felt everywhere but the true scope of what's happening isn't generating sufficient outrage. 

But I don't blame the average citizen when the entire system is rigged against them. Their own representatives are going to town halls and being eviscerated by the audience but it falls on their deaf ears. Many of these congress people are rabid Kool-aid drinkers doing their part to dismantle their own nation because they have been unwittingly indoctrinated to do so. 

In his book 1984, George Orwell predicted this regime where truth is lie and lie is truth because he had an understanding of human nature and the extreme hold of propaganda among a general population. 

What doesn't help is that the myth of American exceptionalism and the American dream still cloud the vision of many who still believe in those things. All the while the people who can least afford to have things taken away from them are being victimized the most. 

Here is where the sin of rugged individualism hurts because so many failed to comprehend that, under that dogma, the cards would always be stacked against them no matter how hard they tried.