Letter to the American People

My fellow Americans,

We are struggling. We are weighed down by health insurance, medical debt, credit card debt, student loan debt, car payments, high rents, and taxes. We work service industry jobs, toiling day in and day out to meet the demands of the rich. And not on accident but on purpose. The world as it is is not the result of some inevitable, natural process. It operates as it does by design.

The American government serves the rich. Everybody knows this. But the question is, why? Some people think it’s human nature, but that is naive. It’s really because this nation was founded on genocide and slavery. The original settlers stole the land and enslaved millions of people to work the land and produce their wealth. The country was designed by land-stealers and enslavers, for the benefit of land-stealers and enslavers. That is the origin of American inequality. Today’s American rich are the heirs of this legacy.

We are a nation that invests in the rich. Everybody knows this. But it doesn’t have to be this way. To right the wrongs of systemic injustice, to balance the scales, to solve the crisis of wealth inequality and poverty, and to liberate the American people, a great redistribution is necessary. We must become a nation that invests in its people, rather than its major corporations.

Let us start by taxing billionaires into non-existence. No one deserves a billion dollars. There is not an occupation on earth difficult enough to warrant that much wealth. For one person to have that much money is obscene. When we consider the millions of people in poverty, it becomes not just obscene but pure evil. Billionaires, by virtue of their riches and their neglect of the poor, are the most evil individuals in existence. They are the enemies of the people. To liberate them from their wretched status as oppressors of the people, we must extract from them what makes them evil, which is their wealth. Liberate billionaires! Tax their billions.

In 2024, the top 1% of the population possessed an astonishing $49.2 trillion.1 That is almost eight times as much as the entire federal government spent in 2024: $6.75 trillion.2 The wealth of eight countries, for the few!

Once we abolish billionaires, we will have the revenue to greatly expand our investments in the American people. We already have the infrastructure we need for some of it, we just need to make the numbers larger. Grants, libraries, food stamps. These things empower American people. But we also need to go farther. Universal healthcare. Guaranteed minimum income. These are not handouts, they are investments. We need a well-educated, healthy, free populace if we want a strong, vibrant nation.

But we don’t just need to invest in the American people, we need to put a halt to the systems that are bringing American people down. That means rent control, anti-usury laws, and debt forgiveness. Get rid of health insurance costs and medical debt by establishing universal healthcare. Get rid of high rents by regulating landlords. Begin to repair the damage of decades of bad student loan policies by forgiving student loan debt.

The American people are not struggling because life is inherently bad, we’re struggling because the ruling class burdens us with oppressive policies. They want us working long hours. They want us languishing in debt. They want us to be weak, deprived of the care we need, too tired to change the system that serves them.

The ruling class know something most of us don’t, that we are at war. It is the rich vs. the poor. They wage war on us through policies that bind, impoverish, and weaken us. But by and large, we do not wage war back. By and large, we are too busy dreaming of being rich like them. Too busy imagining what we would do if we had their privileges. Too busy internalizing their mindset and serving their interests. That is why we elected a billionaire and we scoff at leftist policies.

But it’s time to wake up. The earth is burning. The hour is late. We need to fight back. We need to develop class consciousness, that is, the awareness of ourselves that we are an oppressed class, a people trampled on by the rich.

And we need to develop a revolutionary consensus, an agreement among ourselves that we are done acquiescing to the demands of the ruling class, and that we will liberate ourselves through radical policies that invest in the American people.

Our leaders will not offer us liberation. We will liberate ourselves or we will remain in bondage.

For our liberation, we need class consciousness and revolutionary consensus. Only when the masses come together in agreement on who is oppressing us and what we need to do about it will we be able to make our demands and have our demands met.

Demand redistribution. Demand justice. Demand divestment for the rich. Demand investment for the people. Tear down those who refuse us.

Fight the system! Fight back!

Fight the system! Fight back!

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