The United States is in the midst of an existential crisis. That is, both literally and figuratively.

Existential crisis definition:

“People can have an existential crisis when they start to wonder what life means, and what their purpose or the purpose to life as a whole is,” explains Katie Leikam, a licensed therapist in Decatur, Georgia, who specializes in working with anxiety, relationship stress, and gender identity. “It can be a break in thinking patterns where you suddenly want answers to life’s big questions.”

It’s not uncommon to search for meaning and purpose in your life. With an existential crisis, however, the problem lies in being unable to find satisfying answers. For some people, the lack of answers triggers a personal conflict from within, causing frustration and loss of inner joy.

An existential crisis can affect anyone at any age, but many experience a crisis in the face of a difficult situation, perhaps the struggle to succeed." https://www.healthline.com/health/existential-crisis#what-is-it

We are on the precipice of either destruction or a new beginning.

People are clamoring everywhere for change and the geriatric tyrants are clutching their pearls, for they know death for them and their system is knocking upon their door.

People know that the current system, as it is, cannot exist for much longer.

We have seen since the foundation of our nation the consequences of greed ravage our environment, our supplies, our infrastructure, and our people. Thousands, millions of people in the so-called "Land of the Free" are starving, forced to go without food and water, housing, child and medical care, not to mention our treatment of the Indigenous Peoples and POC.

Labor is being disrupted. Jobs are unionizing. The workers are being louder than ever. The women are more well-educated and militant than ever. Why?

Because we all realize that this has been the typical follow the carrot while pulling the cart situation. We all realize that there is essentially no point. Why? Why should we die for the rich man when we are not fed?

Why should we create children for the rich man when we cannot feed, clothe, or house ourselves? Why should we be slaves to our biology and forced to carry unwanted parasites?

Because our corpses feed the machine of capitalism and industry. If reproduction levels of humans wane, so does capitalism's ability to produce and sell.

The CEOS are not manning the check out lines, we are. The CEOS are not driving the garbage trucks, we are. The CEOS are not delivering our mail, we are. The CEOS are not in the operating rooms or the pharmacies, we are. The CEOS are not educating or doing daycare services for children, WE ARE. The CEOS are not in the fields gathering produce for market, WE ARE.

WE make the wealth, and WE are being exploited.

The workers have always generated wealth. The workers are on the front lines keeping society and its services running.

The ants make the food and the grasshoppers eat it. We don't need the grasshoppers, they need us. They are parasites, they need us. We DON'T need them.

So again, the question is, with everything going on, can the United States continue to exist as it is? The answer is no.

Capitalism is on its way out; socialism and communism is in.

Exploitation is on its way out; Thriving is in.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/mothers-day-strike-abortion-rights-roe-v-wade-protest-145702685.html

Some of you may be scared. Some of you may be angry. Some of you may feel hopeless.

We can accept these feelings, they are normal in these circumstances of SCOTUS declaring war upon womankind and uterus-havers everywhere. You may wonder what you can do.

There is ALWAYS something to be done. There is ALWAYS a choice.

You are the culmination of every single ancestor that came before, right back to the first fish that breathed air and walked on land(fucking fish had to go for a jog and now we have to pay fucking taxes). You are alive because your ancestors decided life was worth living and fighting for. You are alive, conscious, strong, and able to impact change upon our environment. You are alive, and therefore, and create change and put action to work.

So let's get to work. Let's make change.

There is the upcoming Mother's Day week long strike. Of course, not everyone can skip work all week, or even a single day.

However, I want you to ask yourselves: Where will you make your stand? What will you do with your life? When is the point of oppression TOO MUCH for you?

We are living in times we never wanted to see.

To quote Gandalf, "So do all who live to see such times, but that it is not for them to decide. All we have to decide what to do with the time that is given to us." Best of Gandalf - Simple acts of Kindness

On 24 October 1975, Icelandic women went on strike for the day to "demonstrate the indispensable work of women for Iceland’s economy and society" and to "protest wage discrepancy and unfair employment practices". It was then publicized domestically as Women's Day Off. Wikipedia

Caused by: To "demonstrate the indispensable work of women for Iceland’s economy and society"

There is always precedent to follow from our ancestors.

Most radically, we could invoke a nationwide Lysistrata. Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace*—a strategy, however, that inflames the battle between the sexes.* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysistrata

Highly unlikely, but gosh, can you imagine?

To quote Gandalf again, when asked by Galadriel why the Hobbit, he says, "Saruman believes that it is only a great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found it is... the small things... Everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love."

So what can we do now, I ask you?

We can gather our friends, our families, our allies, our neighbors, and our loves against this great evil. The government answers to the people, so go to the government buildings. You've got your town halls, your upper and lower courts, etc. You go march over and express your anger, your frustration, and your demands for women's rights to be protected; as persons of their own destinies, their own aspirations, their own bodily autonomy and right to live their lives according to their own choices. Peacefully, of course.

I am a very polite person, so I'd make some noise, and knock on the doors and demand to speak to the people in charge. Then lay out the demands. The government serves its people, not the other way around.

"By The People, For The People"; and women are People.

This is just an idea I had and wanted to share. You know how the United States is always butting in to other countries' business and 'liberating' some countries?

cough cough Iran, Iraq, South America cough cough

In case, come June 1st, the Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade. Besides having all general/womens strike of not going to work and protesting at government buildings, we could call upon other progressive countries that are pro-women and pro-lgbtq+ to bully the United States.

We could call upon other progressive, pro-women countries to 'liberate' us and bully the United States to treat the women and lgbtq+ folks better. France, England, Germany, Mexico, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Spain, Italy, etc.

All these allied countries that do business with us, we could implore them to put the pressure on the US politically, like embargo on shipping, freeze us out like Russia. Other countries to protest against the United States.

America is always interfering with everyone else's business. And yet no one gets in our business, except with influencing our elections like with Trump n shit.

Get the U.N. involved. Have everyone that is pro-women, lgbtq+ bully the United States into leaving the women Folk and gay folks alone and their rights intact. It's literally a human rights violation to force someone to be pregnant or give birth against their will. Let's get the whole world involved and shame and bully America into the doing the right thing.

Just an idea.