We, the People, Are More Powerful Than Billionaires — We Must Desist
We, the People, Are More Powerful Than Billionaires
We Must Desist — and Reclaim the Republic of Conscience
Curious and interesting in my observation: the absolute proliferation of “informed” detail on social media can be both illuminating and exhausting. Yet it is through these digital portals—those not yet restricted—that truth still travels. The Instagram stories, the Threads commentaries, the TikTok explainers by hard-core realists dissecting power and policy—this is where unfiltered awareness lives.
What I’ve personally witnessed, however, is a quiet form of erasure. Posts on Meta vanish—not deleted by the user, but “disappeared” after upload. The written caption remains, but the accompanying video, sometimes direct from congressional hearings or verified public sources, fades into insight unavailable. It’s a subtle silencing.
And so, cross-posting becomes its own act of persistence—finding the channels not yet gate-kept, seeking the public squares where facts can still stand unmuted. Because the digital commons is not free if its truth can be quietly hidden.
Thanks again to the heroes and heroines without capes—those here on social media who talk out loud, who post the inconvenient truths, who refuse to let the algorithms bury the evidence. My why found its shape after one such post on Threads that pierced through the noise. The writer had fact-checked something most of us rarely see in print: there are more than 900,000 undocumented Europeans living in America, yet ICE is not detaining white folk.
That single sentence rewired my understanding of disparity. It wasn’t outrage—it was realization. Behind the official tallies and bureaucratic press releases sits a quiet imbalance. We have numbers that prove nearly three-quarters of deportations target Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, even though those communities make up barely half of all people without status. Meanwhile, others—European, Canadian, Asian—exist under the same definition of “undocumented” but remain largely untouched by enforcement.
Disparity hides best in routine—when unequal becomes ordinary.
I’m not here to inflame or accuse. I’m here to notice—to name the asymmetry and ask why compassion, fairness, and scrutiny don’t flow evenly across color lines. Why is it that some must prove their worth at every checkpoint while others simply pass through unmarked?
These are lawful questions, born of data and decency. To raise them is not rebellion; it is citizenship practiced with eyes open.
There comes a point when silence is not neutrality but consent. We have reached that point.
The billionaires trade in a euphoric currency—money as narcotic, influence as intoxication. They fund chaos while the rest of us fund schools, roads, and hope. But power, in its purest form, was never meant to be hoarded—it was meant to be shared.
“Desist” is an old word for a new act of courage: stop feeding what destroys us.
We the People outnumber every boardroom. Eight million stood in peaceful resistance and said #NoKings. That wasn’t rebellion—it was reclamation. It was good trouble with law on its side.
To desist is not to withdraw; it is to disrupt with civility. It means refusing to amplify lies, refusing to purchase propaganda, refusing to believe that wealth equals worth.
The billionaire referendum—rule by money—is not our oath. Ours is the promise of equity, accountability, and moral imagination. Every lawful act of conscience is a strike against the empire of greed.
We are the correction—the seismic balance in a tilted world.
So desist. Withdraw your awe. Reinvest your faith in people, not fortunes. The republic is not for sale; it is renewed every time a citizen refuses to be bought.
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