🗽 “When in the Course of Human Events” —

A Declaration for the 21st Century

💭 The Simple Fix No One Wants

I know how to stop this problem. Just give the American people free health care and social programs.

Then Congress can filibuster, posture, and play their little procedural games all they want. If the essentials of life are made into law—beyond debate—then they’ll have to argue about something else and look ridiculous doing it.

Maybe a few of these new progressive Democrats still care about us a little. But most of Congress doesn’t. They’ve turned citizens into customers. Everything’s a transaction—our votes are the product, and “the American people” are the marketing slogan they chant while holding us hostage.

Since 1976—ironically, our Bicentennial year—they’ve shut the government down 22 times. The last four were under our “illustrious” current leader.

📜 A Reminder from 1776

Do we need to invoke the Declaration of Independence again? Remember the part that says:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another… a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

Everyone quotes the Constitution, but the Declaration is the why behind it all. It’s the break-up letter that started a nation. The Founders were furious at a king who ignored their lives and labor. They weren’t subtle—they picked up muskets and fought the largest empire in the world with little more than courage and conviction.

They weren’t playing. And somehow, we’ve forgotten that the American story begins with ordinary people saying enough.

💸 The Real Problem — and the Real Money

Our basic needs—food, health care, housing—should never be political poker chips. They are the foundation of a civilized republic.

How do we fund it? We already have the infrastructure: it’s called Social Security and Medicare. Funny how people scream about socialism when the word’s right there in the title.

If you want to know who’s draining your wallet, it’s not undocumented workers or refugees—it’s the billionaire class collecting your tax dollars as “business incentives,” only to funnel them back to politicians in gilded ballrooms.

Where did they get the money for Trump’s $350 million ballroom? From us.
They call it “personal funds,” but the source is tax breaks—our tax breaks—laundered through the elite circle of self-reward.

🌎 The Scapegoat Cycle

Every era, America finds a new scapegoat:
First the Native Americans.
Then the Blacks.
Then the Japanese.
Then the Mexicans.
Then the Muslims.
Now it’s “the immigrants.”

But guess what? We’re all immigrants. That’s the origin story. The Mayflower wasn’t a private yacht—it was a relocation project.

🏠 The Real Foreigners

The real foreigners aren’t the ones seeking asylum.
They’re the multinational corporations buying up our housing stock and letting it rot.
They’re the hedge funds hoarding empty condos while working families sleep in cars.
They’re the investors throwing away good food because it’s not “Instagram-perfect.”

Let’s not get it twisted: these are the people taking our homes, our jobs, and the food from our mouths.

🎓 Education: The Other Battleground

Free, universal education—through college—should be the next non-negotiable.
We all take the same tests, do the same work, and earn our place. Merit isn’t a demographic; it’s discipline.

We are the only nation in the so-called “developed” West without free health care and education. That’s not freedom. That’s feudalism with Wi-Fi.

⚖️ The Twainian Proposal

Take food, housing, health care, and education off the bargaining table.
Put them in the Bill of Rights where they belong.
Let the billionaires fund the democracy they claim to love.

And if they won’t, then perhaps it’s time to revisit that first paragraph of 1776—
because we, too, have the right “to alter or abolish” a system that’s become destructive of our safety and happiness.

🕊️ Citizen Twain
✴️ Twain’s Gazette of the Absurd
📜 Where Bureaucracy Meets Its Maker.