It’s a hostile takeover

Americans generally agree on the most important central things about America, but we get distracted from those when we’re fighting each other. Now Americans are confused from more arguing than we can keep track of, and exhausted from more fighting than we can endure, over mass migrations, mass shootings, taking a knee, or taking the Fifth.

Don’t be confused. Everything makes sense; just follow the money.

As I write, our house is being burglarized. Robbers are taking everything we own. All we have built together, by blood, sweat, and tears, to bequeath to our children, is being moved by thieving hands into private pockets.

America is under economic attack—a hostile takeover. Prisons, schools, national parks, tollways, airports, health care, are all being given into the control of private hands for their private profit. Oil, coal, shale, gas, timber, rivers and aquifers—Congress!— are priceless, and are all being sold for worthless loans that predictably will be foreclosed upon, and paper notes that inevitably will be devalued.

The tax cuts and exaggerated annual military budgets are designed specifically to transfer uncounted trillions to private “patrons” who “donate” enough to ensure our elected officials serve them, not the voters.

Our budget uses borrowed money, so future taxpayers with no vote today will inherit the impossible debt, leaving our children, and their children, and their children hopelessly impoverished.

Distracted by fighting each other, we don’t notice criminals stealing everything. Stop blaming each other; look up. Together, we Americans are under attack.

RALPH ELLIS Fayetteville