Almost every election cycle now, media pundits go through the rounds of talking about Democrats being at X%, Republicans being at Y%, and Independents seemingly getting larger. Outside of the media pundits, political activists and enthusiasts (for lack of a quick word) hypothesize that all that Americans need is someone to "listen to them" and someone to "rally them up".

Put another way, if someone came out with a working-class agenda, then people would come out in droves to support it. All that needs to happen is for someone to go out and do it.

And with that hypothesis, it will never happen.

Eugene Debs had a pertinent quote:

I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, some one else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition; as it is now the capitalists use your heads and your hands.

Here in America, we coddle and infantilize the American people. We excuse and explain away their behavior, even as it leads us to our eventual extinction. We excuse apathy with saying that voters have nowhere to go. We excuse arrogant ignorance as an American staple. We excuse the lack of critical-thinking skills by saying folks are hypnotized and propagandized.

We excuse Americans for everything.

Republicans will continue to vote for Republicans and they will continue to suffer and die. Democrats will continue to vote for Democrats and they will continue to suffer and die. Independents will either vote for Republicans or Democrats, while a brave few will move off to a different party. The apathetic voters will merely wait for someone to save them.

Here's the thing, Americans: No one is coming to save you.

Americans are seemingly just going to wait for the Messiah to come and save them. Vote that person in, everything changes. Good to go #thumbsupemoji.

Our infrastructure is collapsing, our government is the most corrupt in human history, our government might very well start a nuclear holocaust, we are on the verge of a climate catastrophe humanity might never recover from, the capitalists control everything, and everyone is waiting for someone to save them.

No one is coming to save you.

Americans will never learn; they seem to not want to learn. Eugene Debs talked about this 100 years ago. Things still haven't changed. Americans want someone to just save them, to just blindly follow.

Reagan, Obama, Clinton/Trump. All had either massive followings and/or dedicated followings. And things either got worse or would have gotten worse under them.

We don't want to think; we want someone to think for us. We don't want to examine reality; we want someone to create a reality for us. We don't want to do anything; we want someone to do it for us.

No one is coming to save you.

You could have every elected office in this country be Democratic and things won't change. You could have every elected office in this country be Republican and things won't change.

America - no one is coming to save you.

The corporations won't save you. Your governor won't save you. Your representative won't save you. Your senator won't save you. Your President won't save you. Your government itself won't save you.

When our climate finally succumbs to a positive feedback loop, Americans will look up and say, "So, who is going to fix this now that it is unfixable?" Corporations will shrug and continue on. The government will do PR speeches while the rich and powerful scramble towards their luxury bunkers.

America is dying, simply because the American people continue to wait for someone to save it. The world is dying and Americans will watch it happen because they will wait for someone, somewhere, somehow to save it for them. We continue to pat Americans on the head and excuse their behavior, all because someone didn't rise up to save them from themselves.

We've been coddling Americans for over a century. We've spread the lies that America is uniquely exceptional, that it is uniquely good and graced by God. We've spread garbage that everything we do is right and just. Just, of course, don't look behind the curtain to see the real rot and evil that exists. And Americans seem to refuse to look behind the curtain, because they eat a diet of lies.

You cannot change an addict; the addict must want to change. You can scream, scold, excuse, cherish, but you cannot change them. At some point, you must realize the power exists within the addict to change.

Americans must choose between changing themselves or waiting for someone to just save them while changing nothing. Sadly, my belief tends to follow the road of Americans simply waiting, even while the world burns around them.

Edit: Missed an "and".