1. United States
2. Mo.
3. Letter

Look around. The water’s rising. The deck’s tilting. And the crew? Panicking. You supported the crew. You cheered the captain. You believed the rally cry. But the iceberg was never a metaphor. The ship has been sinking while you danced on deck (or ran like a scare little boy on Jan 6th...). Bannon didn’t mince words. “If we lose the midterms [DONE] and we lose 2028 [DEF. GOING TO HAPPEN], some in this room are going to prison — myself included.” Newsweek, Common Dreams That’s not bravado. That’s confession. That’s fear dressed up as urgency. Because those who built the ship know exactly how fragile it is. Let’s not pretend the signs aren’t everywhere: A shutdown that withholds food from children while billionaires party. A cognitive-crippled leader whose own appointees are asking how to codify his edicts before the structure collapses. A party that was supposed to be about small government, now about controlling everything — goading the institutions, seizing the levers, lest they lose. Common Dreams Gallup and other polls show the base slipping. The electorate is moving. The people are fed up. This is your warning: if you remain loyal to the wreck, you go down with the wreck. There will be no safe lifeboats reserved for the faithful once the hull cracks. That handshake you gave at the rally? One day it might bind you to the mess. You have a choice: Jump now. Help build a salvage operation — something new, responsible, centered on people, not power. Stay aboard. And sink with the ship (or the plane that is crashing... http://www.imagn.com/setImages/333960/preview/15420641) Because the truth is simple: the sinking/crashing won’t wait for you. And history doesn’t credit the crew that stayed loyal — it remembers who got off.