America is at war.
It’s just not the kind of war we’ve been taught to recognize or question.
It’s the kind we’ve been taught would never happen.
It’s the kind that gaslights us while waving Patriotism like a battle flag.
It’s not the kind of war fought with tanks or bombs.
It’s psychological—because it gets in your head.
It’s political—because it strips your rights away.
It’s personal—because it’s your life, and they are gutting it.
What it is… is a war for truth.
For humanity.
For your mind.
For your very existence.
The battleground?
Your body. Your rights. Your community.
Your attention. Your labor. Your humanity.
We’re watching our institutions collapse
under the weight of corporate greed
and authoritarian ambition.
Public education. Bodily autonomy.
Clean water. Civil liberties.
Freedom.
It’s all under siege.
And yet so many people still ask,
“What war?” or “Why?”
But war never asks why.
And this—this is the war.
The one that doesn’t announce itself.
The kind that eats democracy from the inside out.
The kind that turns neighbor against neighbor.
Sister against brother.
Wife against husband.
The kind that kills 40-year old friendships.
The kind that counts on your silence.
Your confusion.
Your complicity.
Your belief that the system will save you—
that it will save all of us.
It’s a losing battle—
unless we name it.
And once we name it?
We stop feeding it.
And once we stop feeding it—
it dies.
Here’s the hard truth:
Voting will not save us from a system
that rigs every rule in its own favor.
It won’t undo corporate personhood.
It won’t dismantle bought politicians.
It won’t heal what was never designed to serve
We the People in the first place.
The only way we win
is by removing our participation from the machine entirely.
By refusing to be the labor, the data, the dollar,
the passive consent that keeps it thriving.
We withdraw our obedience.
We withdraw our energy.
We withdraw our belief that this is the best we can do.
We build something else.
Something better.
Something for all of us.
Not through permission.
Not through begging.
Not through voting.
But through refusal.
That is how the war ends.
Not when the system changes.
But when we starve it.
Quickly.