COMPASSION KAPUT

Compassion in America Is Dead

Let’s stop pretending: Compassion in America is dead.

Empathy has been driven out of our national consciousness, and morality is a marketing slogan for politicians and preachers who serve the rich and powerful. If you're sick, poor, elderly, disabled, or just struggling to get by, this country no longer cares. And let’s be brutally honest, they want you to disappear.

A Nation Ruled by Narcissists and Thieves

America is now in the iron grip of an oligarchy, plutocracy, and theocracy a trifecta of greed, power, and religious hypocrisy. Billionaires call the shots, and they are worshiped by a pack of sycophants politicians, media hacks, and corrupt religious leaders who have sold their souls for a seat at the table.

They have one goal:
— Erase the middle class.
— Crush the poor.
— Leave nothing but a nation of servants to the rich.

If you’re not among the wealthy elite, you are nothing to them, a “freeloader,” a “burden,” a “taker.” And if you die? Well, one less problem for them.

Where Is the Church? The Great Betrayal

What’s worse? The very institutions that should be leading the charge for compassion and empathy in America’s churches are complicit.

Today, Christian churches in America don’t stand for the poor, the sick, or the downtrodden. Instead, they stand behind the rich and powerful, blessing billionaires while the masses suffer. This is as far from Christ’s teachings as it gets.

Make no mistake, the major religions in this country have become nothing more than lapdogs for the oligarchs. They preach submission, not justice. They preach greed wrapped in a false gospel.

A Nation Without a Safety Net 

Programs that once helped ordinary people survive, such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and housing assistance, are under relentless attack. And now, they are being dismantled right before our eyes.

Other advanced nations take care of their people.
America takes care of billionaires.

We are told that helping others is “socialism,” as if that’s some great evil while handing trillions to billionaires is somehow “freedom.” It’s a lie. It's a monstrous lie. And millions are suffering because of it.

Don't Count on Politicians.  Count on Yourself

Here’s the cold truth: no political leadership is coming to save us.
The Democratic Party is too weak, too bought off, or too cowardly to stand up to the oligarchs. And the Republicans? They are the oligarchs.

If compassion and empathy are to return to this country, it will not be because of some hero on a white horse. It will be because ordinary people rise up and take this country back.

Everyone Is a Leader Now.  Act Like It

We don’t have the luxury of waiting, and we don’t have the time to hope someone else will do it. You are now a leader if you care about compassion, empathy, and justice.

We must act individually and together.

• Speak out loud and relentlessly.
• Organize in your community, online, anywhere you can.
• Vote every time, everywhere.
• Demand action from anyone who claims to represent us.
• Refuse to accept the system that treats human beings as garbage.

Take Back America. Or Lose It Forever

If we don’t rise now, compassion and empathy will not just be dead — they will be buried so deep they may never return.

But if we act and fight, we can bring them back.

• We can build an America that cares for its people again.
• An America that values humanity over wealth.
• An America where compassion is a strength, not a weakness.

The path back to a moral nation starts with you. With me. With all of us.
No more waiting. No more excuses.

If we want to see compassion and empathy alive again in America, we have to fight like hell for it.

And we start now.

William James Spriggs