having dyslexia this is mostly just what my copilot wrote because i can not write very well and if there is anything this group does not like i would like for you to tell me what it is and what to change so maybe i can post something this group will like or at least not have a problem with and because of the dyslexia i will try to only say what the copilot said from here on out and i hope it is close enough to my original thought and i worked very hard for two hours with it last night to create this...

We call ourselves land of the free and home of the brave, yet more than half our newborn boys still get their genitals cut without consent. Fifty-five to sixty percent nationwide, propped up by eighty-plus in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia. That number isn’t a statistic—it’s the emblem of everything that’s gone wrong: a culture so slavishly devoted to “tradition,” profit, and control that it refuses to question violence served as medicine.

This isn’t just about circumcision. It’s the same mindset that shoves kids into debt for college, then blames them when they can’t pay. Boomers—anyone over thirty, under seventy—shouted at our faces to hit the books, then drowned us in student loans. You told us education was the path to freedom, then sold us to private banks. You voted for a man who gutted childhood cancer research, who cheers war crimes against Iran, who funds Israeli genocide and attacks his own country’s courts. You broke a nation’s reputation on the world stage because graft and greed matter more than truth or human life.

And this failure isn’t confined to red states. Both parties—Democrat and Republican—answer to the same corporate masters. The center-left lionizes choice until it comes to cutting infant flesh; the reactionary right rants about moral decay while enshrining cruelty in law. They’re two heads of one monster, and we’re living in its barnyard.

Meanwhile, in the rust-belt towns, boys learn early that feelings are weakness. They swallow pain, hide tears, and grow up numb. That “male disease” Carlin Hicks talks about? It’s fueled by patriarchy’s poison: shame, rage, emotional starvation. Doug Stanhope’s savage humor and Bill Burr’s unflinching rants call out our cowardice, but jokes alone can’t heal the wound. We need action.

Look overseas. Europe courted universal healthcare, free universities, robust safety nets. They tax the ultra-rich, invest in art, in science, in people. They trust their citizens. Japan marries respect for tradition with meticulous craftsmanship and communal bonds—even if its work culture can suffocate. We could have—no, we must have—four-day workweeks, paid family leave, debt-free education, real healthcare. These aren’t utopian fantasies; they’re existing models we refuse to adopt because Midwestern conformity and corporate lobbyists shout louder.

Stop demonizing the South as America’s villain. New Orleans sings with Creole joy, feeds bodies and souls, fuses cultures without fear and to quote the liberal red neck the south sings sweeter songs and cooks better food than the rest of this country combined and to act like it has nothing to offer culturally is a bunch of hypocritical and intellectually lazy mid west non sense. while California may be flawed—hello, Hollywood’s monopoly—but it leads on LGBTQ rights, tech innovation, immigrant solidarity. Oregon and Minnesota, weird as they are, question the status quo and have circumcision rates well below the national average.

Every institution built on obedience and pain must fall. Don’t ask for incremental reform—burn it all down. Let the system implode under its own hypocrisy: the hospitals that profit off infant surgery, the banks that profit off youth debt, the politicians who profit off war and fear.

In the ashes, we can rebuild a country that honors bodily autonomy, that prizes creativity over conformity, empathy over dominance. A nation where no child’s body is a bargaining chip, where no generation owes servitude to a broken heritage. If you still cling to the old machine—if you choose control over conscience—you’re complicit. Tear it down. Then build something truly human.

if there is anything that did not post correctly i apologied and i think it tried to gltich and did not want to keep posting while i wrote what little i did and again it was mostly just what my copilot wrote and i have been at this now since last night and i really was hoping to get this out into the world and since this is one of the more fitting groups to share this in.