I was once as blind as the next person. Just as silent to the issues that corrupted our world. Just as oblivious to the solutions that I could implement to fix them. It was all just very simply “I don’t like politics, it’s too complicated and I want nothing to do with it,” and that’s all it was.

I turned my back and only paid any attention to the elections and political shenanigans when my parents started to complain about the candidates In November. So it was a no-brainer that when I turned 18, I didn’t register to vote. I wanted nothing to do with it. How was I supposed to make a difference?

I knew there were problems in the world. I knew I cared about some of them. Yeah, I wanted to save the environment. Yeah, I felt like we shouldn’t have been in the wars we are in now. Yeah, I knew that some things in society sucked and I was forced to deal with it.

But I felt like I didn’t know enough about it or care enough about it to change anything. Sure, I’ll recycle. Sure, I’ll complain that we shouldn’t be in the Middle East. Sure, I would find nit-picky things about society that I didn’t like and complain about it. That’s all the energy I put into it.

I knew the world was built off of greed of money, the selfish nature of man that made each of us want to care for ourselves before others. I always hated it because I tried my best to think of others before myself. Yet, when it came to the big picture, I just stood by and let bad things happen to people because I had no power. I had to take care of what I had control of and let go of what I couldn’t. Without any power, I could only control myself.

Then I met someone who believed that there was more than selfishness in the government and higher powers of the world. This man then rose to become my best friend and boyfriend. He was drastically depressed by these predictions of what the world would turn into.

He was so afraid of everything that would eventually happen, explaining how Martial Law would be put in place and how the rebels in America could be collected and placed in the ominous FEMA camps. Then major corporations would gather power over the governments through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and cause America to basically turn into a communist state with corporations at the top.

But I ignored this. I ignored these warnings and predictions because I figured they were too far away from now that I wouldn’t have to deal with it. There really wasn’t anything someone little like me could do to stop it, anyway. But hey, nothing that terrible would happen, especially here in America — the best country in the world — right?

…..Right?

Then the president candidates came down to a businessman who has no experience in politics and can’t recognize or come up with solutions for many social and international issues, or a woman who changes her opinion on issues depending on who she’s talking to and when, not to mention her strong support for the TPP and the suspicious actions she took as Secretary of State.

On top of this, conflicts are rising between the Black Lives Matter movement and Police Brutality issues. Now there’s word that these protests and issues may be big enough to consider enacting Martial Law.

So I woke up.

There are bigger problems in the world that need to be addressed right now. I don’t care about how I look to others, I don’t care if I’ve lost followers and friends because of my outspoken consideration for the issues in this country. I don’t care how many people I’ve pissed off.

I’ve made it my mission to stop these things from happening. There cannot be a race war in America, there cannot be Martial Law, there cannot be the TPP, the FEMA camps cannot be activated or America very literally becomes the equivalent of Nazi Germany. Forsaking a struggling religion while condemning innocent people because they don’t comply.

We cannot be compliant to submit to choosing “the best of two evils” in such a sensitive time in American history. We need a true leader who knows where the issues start and what can be done to stop them.

I cannot go back to sleep. I cannot be compliant and blinded to the issues that corrupt our world. I can’t sit here and do nothing. That’s all I’ve ever done, that’s all anyone in this blasted society has every done. Nothing.

I can no longer be content with surviving. I want to live. To live in a world where everyone is equal and has the same rights to food, shelter, healthcare, and the right to be an individual so they may grow to what they were meant to be and one day serve the world and make it even better.

With no individuality, there will be no contraries. Without contraries, there’s no progression.

I want to rewrite the system. The whole thing. Start with the way that currency works and base it on moral values rather than the corporations and greed. People should be rewarded for doing good for the world. Then work into the government and change its morals, change it to be fair for all and completely democratic while being free of corruption. Then work into the education system and rewrite how we teach and how the system rewards individuality and progression so that students have a reason to learn and can learn to apply and create so not only are they learning the information, but are coming up with ways to use it to the advantage of society.

If more people woke up to what’s really happening in the world and if they really sat down and thought about their purpose in the grand scheme and act upon it, they may really see how they can change the world.

Be a part of history.