JOURNALING with JOSH

  The reason our leaders are affording Fascism the reigns is because they have no other way to control our demands for economic justice as they hand trillions of dollars to the billionaire class who then in turn bribe them. It's a bi-partisan effort, it requires a weak opposition and a very happy base of mindless right wing drones who continually are spoon fed narratives for them to be outraged about for their fascist leaders to appease. Those with power have always been and will always be the enemy of the people. They seek the easy route rather than entertain the concept of justice or accountability. A repeated cycle throughout documented human history. One that Democracy had hoped to provide some sort of lever to control. They're relying on us to push this country left, And taking the refusal to do so as a public mandate to continue their push further right. They color inside the lines, kill only poor brown people across continents, set up free speech zones that don't inc...

This is the “opposition” we’ve accepted: the lesser evil. The Democrats sit back and do nothing. Any support for this party as it is is support for the status quo. You don’t get to vote for weakness and expect strength when the shit hits the fan. “But we have to stop things from getting worse.” No. This is war. And war doesn't ever "get better." We are fighting evil— and evil doesn’t respond to politeness. When your neighbor celebrates men like Trump, you don’t win by wringing your hands. You win by igniting a vision more powerful than their cruelty. And that means Socialism. That means redistributing wealth. (Every government policy is wealth distribution. And for decades, that distribution has flowed upward—from the working class to the capital class.) That means material power in the hands of workers. There is no other fucking way. The problem? The media is controlled by capital. There is no anti-capitalist infrastructure in our propaganda systems. There is no platform...

It feels scary publicly saying "I am willing to burn every single relationship i have in support of the Palestinian people who are being ethnically cleansed by the Israeli government with the full support of my own." But it feels scarier knowing that if I dont, I would be betraying myself. Who would I be if I stayed silent, id be a smart businessman. On track to have everything but my soul. Perfectly complicit.  But fuck me and my feelings, typing impotently on social media is the least I can do. The bottom of the barrel least i can do, as peoples lives are destroyed through my complicity with a system that has decided the comfort of those in my country is more important than the lives of those living in others. The rational part of me says "you arent doing anything, none of this is about you, so shut up" but it still feels wrong. And here this little blurb exists because of that inescapable feeling.  Democrats and Republicans unanimously support the genocide of bro...

If America doesn’t impose real consequences on corporations and billionaires for enabling fascism, this moment will be absorbed into the neoliberal playbook—studied, normalized, and replicated. There must be a material cost. Entire sectors of the economy should be made public in response to the actions being taken right now. Healthcare and higher education are where I’d start. Without accountability, our future becomes a testing ground for totalitarianism—where every authoritarian impulse is refined for profit and control. So long as the wealthy fear no threat to their dragon hoards, they will continue to fund and tolerate the conditions that breed demagogues. If democracy is to mean anything, it must come with consequences for those who gamble with its survival. If you dont make a meaner monster for our economic kings and queens to fear, then you will never see security and change. If you do not punish systems for drifting towards fascism, then it becomes part of the viable business m...

  The genocide we are funding and protecting is a test by our elites—and we are failing. In 2025, it takes almost no effort to see the horrors unfold. Digitally captured. Broadcast in real time. Bodies buried beneath rubble. Children screaming under drone fire. And still, we scroll past, mute. Our federal government didn’t just turn away—it orchestrated the silence. It backed the weapons. It shielded the perpetrators. Of course they’d have to do something horrific here to keep the media machine distracted from our betrayal of the human species abroad. This isn't just a Republican crime. It’s a bipartisan pact. It’s Joe Biden grinning next to Netanyahu. It’s Chuck Schumer reciting talking points written by lobbyists. It’s every anchor who won’t say “ethnic cleansing” because it might cost their network a donor. This was co-signed by the entire establishment—by our think tanks, our arms manufacturers, our universities, our newsrooms, and yes, by the same Democratic Party that once cl...

  A vote for Neoliberal Democrats is a vote for impotence in the face of fascism. I cannot stress this enough. The silence around birthright citizenship—a constitutional right—is deafening. The GOP wages open war on the most basic protections, and Democrats respond with press releases and performative grief. They will not fight for you. Your faith in the system is not noble—it’s a betrayal. A betrayal of our friends. Of our families. Of our health. Of our planet. Yes, they are master manipulators. But the trick isn't subtle. They’re manipulating all of us while our communities are defunded, the police state is empowered, and the burden of crisis is shifted from the wealthy to the working class.