The Church of Latter Day Elites
We're tithing to billionaires who preach prosperity but deliver poison.
We're tithing to billionaires who preach prosperity but deliver poison.
Fox News preaches to living rooms full of lost souls and the elderly that the way forward is through our elites. If the people do not sacrifice through hard work and obedience to the ruling class, the economic prosperity plan handed to us by the savior Ronald Reagan will fail. The trickle down will not be large enough to save the working class and they will become lazy welfare recipients. The people have worked to mental and physical exhaustion and have gone into debt to be qualified to work in specific areas that benefit the ruling class. The trickle is not trickling, as affording a comfortable life and raising a family has become a grueling process.
Eccentric billionaires have become so beloved they can gain a cult following so strong and loyal that running as an authoritative dictator sounds like the only way to save America.
The elites of America have been able to exploit the public in ways that have gained them riches we cannot fathom. The illusion of exploitation as hard work and intelligence on their part allows them to exploit people for their own personal gains from within our government. As they control the government by putting other elites into political positions within the government, the elites are draining the working class people of their communities' resources and polluting their air and water. The worship of elites in America has led to the decay of the US government. A large number of working class people voted to put them in power and defend the elites viciously.
That level of exploitation should gather everyone in the working class in solidarity against the ruling class.
In my previous post about data centers moving into communities, I explore their resource drain in depth. They strain local water supplies and contaminate whatever remains through their cooling systems, making it unfit for human consumption. Meanwhile, they pollute the air with methane generators, sickening residents. The elites building these centers receive government tax breaks while communities bear the health and environmental costs.
The State of Air Report for 2024 done by healthdata.org shows air pollution as the 2nd leading cause of death globally. Only behind high blood pressure, it ranks above tobacco use and diet. It accounts for 30% of respiratory deaths, 28% of heart related deaths, and 48% of deaths related to COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). We are breathing in air, and due to negligence, relaxed regulation, and greed, we are dying in the worst ways possible. The financial benefits from polluting are going into the pockets of a very few while everyone else is suffering from the ramifications. The healthcare system in America is already expensive, but the elites and corporations polluting for profit are causing everyone else to pay higher healthcare costs.
Pollution adds 820 billion dollars to healthcare costs in America annually. That's according to NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) back in 2021. To put into perspective how much 820 billion dollars a year truly is, 4 percent of that amount of money would end homelessness in all of America. Instead, the American people are getting sick and paying billions for preventable illnesses. This study was done in 2021. Now in 2025, regulations are being rolled back further by the republican government. Six executive orders backed by the Republican party have been aimed at environmental and pollution regulations. These moves will further air and water pollution and push the price of healthcare related pollution illnesses even higher. It is time to hold the elites accountable.
A strong EPA with transparency and removed from government intervention would be a big step into holding elites accountable. As a country, we have some of the brightest and best climate and environmental scientists. If we can give them a place to work without government and political interference to hinder their efforts, we could have a thriving EPA. Giving them full control to set guidelines for the country in order to save our communities and guarantee a better future would not only help us have a cleaner, brighter future, but a healthier one. The EPA could be funded by taxing the corporations and elites that are polluting the air and water.
Taxes have to be used to hold the ruling class accountable for their destruction of communities.
Taxing corporations and elites for the damage they do to the communities they profit off of is a start to giving the power back to the people. Listen, it's June 23rd as I write this article. I am sneezing like crazy from God knows what, and it's hot as hell in every state. Chicago has a high of 90 for the week, and England is having a heat wave. The corporations and elites who are responsible for this happening have to be held accountable. They are killing us and our planet. A carbon tax on greenhouse gases for excessive pollution would curb the pollution and help save our health. They have been applied in multiple countries and have worked to some extent.
The World Economic Forum researched carbon tax data in 2021. South Africa and parts of South America have implemented carbon taxes on greenhouse gases. British Columbia, Canada implemented a carbon tax and has cut down 70% of the emissions. There are 9 different initiatives to implement some form of carbon tax waiting in the US government since April of 2021. The current republican government is showing zero signs of wanting to push any initiatives forward. Our elected officials are not doing their job to look out for the working class. As our tax dollars go to fund their salaries, run our country and our respective states, the elites and corporations are getting tax breaks from local and federal taxes.
Our faith should no longer lay within the elites of this country.
Every Sunday, millions of Americans sit in pews and pray for salvation. But the rest of the week, they worship at a different church. One where billionaires are the saints, tax breaks are the sacraments, and pollution is the price of prosperity. It's time to leave this church. Our lives depend on it.
Stay woke,
Loc
