The United States has become a suspect nation where totalitarianism is accepted as long as the stock markets thrive...
January of 2026 was a cruel and bloody month in the United States. The month began with the killing of Renee Good at the hands of ICE and ended with the ICE directed murder of Alex Pretti. In between, countless other American citizens were beaten, pepper sprayed and shot at with either rubber bullets or actual live rounds. Roving bands of masked, militarized thugs seemingly arbitrarily picked individuals and groups off of American streets, workplaces and residences, a swath of "border enforcement" drawn far from any national border. If misery at the hands of a dictatorship could be charted, the United States would, in January, have been staring at a near vertical ascending line.
Despite all this escalating chaos, protests against the actions of an administration run amok were spotty at best, focused mainly in the Minneapolis epicenter of Trump's wrath and a few other large urban areas. Facing a threat not only to Democracy but also to freedom itself, Americans did not fill the streets by the millions as they should have. Clearly there is a disconnect among the population, perhaps a widespread notion that staying out of the crosshairs is the best course of action. Meanwhile, one sector of America does verifiably continue to march on - the American financial markets, which posted a modest increase for the cruel and bloody month of January of 2026.
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