We were told:
Start a small business. Build something. Work hard.
Yeah? Tell that to the guy opening a coffee shop on a block where Starbucks multiplies like bedbugs.
Tell that to the electrician who can’t compete because Home Depot sells everything cheaper than he can breathe.
Tell that to anyone trying to run a restaurant while DoorDash siphons off 30% like a cartel.
Small business has become a joke, and the punchline is always:
“Sorry, Amazon already owns that.”
Corporate America isn’t a ladder anymore — it’s a treadmill.
You can have degrees longer than your legs and still get offered $19/hr and “the opportunity to grow” while a fresh-out-college manager named Bryson teaches you “leadership skills” from a TikTok book.
And if you ask for an actual living wage?
They hit you with the classic:
“We’ll just replace you with someone overseas who costs less than your monthly phone bill.”
And Congress LET them.
Because Congress works for billionaires like interns fighting for attention.
And those “safe career paths”? The golden tickets? Yeah, they’re foil-wrapped scams now.
Doctors? Buried in $300k of debt and insurance paperwork.
Nurses? Replaced by iPads and overworked into early back pain.
Teachers? Buying their own supplies while being blamed for everything.
Engineers? Paid so low they can’t afford the cities they’re building.
Scientists? Begging for grants like contestants on a survival show.
Dentists? About to be devoured by private equity.
Nothing “pays off” anymore unless you were born rich or sell fake “mindset courses” online.
Why?
Because the system wasn’t broken — it was rigged on purpose.
And now let’s drag the “small government” delusion.
Reagan-era Boomers still think shrinking government gives us more freedom.
In 2025, shrinking government just gives corporations full custody.
Less oversight means:
•Poor states collapse
•Rich states act like countries
•Billionaires buy laws like Uber orders
•Infrastructure crumbles
•Corruption multiplies
•And the UN starts looking at us like we need adult supervision
Small government doesn’t free the people —
it frees the predators.
And let’s address the loudest, laziest crowd:
The people who:
don’t vote,
don’t participate,
don’t read,
don’t organize,
don’t understand civics,
don’t show up—
—but have TED Talk–length opinions from the couch.
If your entire political contribution is tweeting rage from bed while dusting Hot Cheeto crumbs off your stomach,
you’re not a revolutionary —
you’re background static.
Get in the arena or move.
The American Dream didn’t fail.
It was sabotaged.
Sabotaged by:
monopolies,
private equity,
outsourcing,
corporate landlords,
tax loopholes,
dark money,
billionaire puppeteers,
and a political class treating public service like a weekend hobby.
This boycott? This reset?
It isn’t a trend. It’s a survival mechanism.
We’re not trying to burn the dream down.
We’re trying to drag it back from the people who stole it —
back to the workers, the builders, the nurses, the teachers, the everyday Americans who LITERALLY made this country.
The American Dream isn’t dead.
It’s tied up in the basement —
and we’re coming to cut the ropes.
