The System Ain't Broken. It Was Designed to Fail Us.
If you’re poor—if you’re struggling, if you ever had to choose between rent and food, between medicine and gas, between survival and dignity—then you know: This system don’t fail us by accident.
From Chase Linko-Looper:
Y’all ever hear someone say, “The system is broken” ?
Well, that’s a lie. It ain’t broken. It’s working exactly how it was built: to keep the rich safe and comfortable while the rest of us drown.
If you’re poor—if you’re struggling, if you ever had to choose between rent and food, between medicine and gas, between survival and dignity—then you know: This system don’t fail us by accident. It was designed to.
Justice? Ain’t none.
You steal food because you’re starving… You get locked up. A billionaire robs an entire town blind, poisons the water, hikes up rent, doesn’t pay his workers… He gets a tax break.
You get caught up with a dime bag… Jail. They get caught laundering millions… Fines they can pay off in an afternoon.
You miss a court date because you got no car… Warrant. They miss a court date… Their lawyers reschedule.
The law ain’t about right or wrong. It’s about power. And guess who ain’t got it.
We got more people in prison than any other country on Earth. “Land of the Free” my ass. Over two million people locked up right now, and most are for non-violent crimes—and the majority are poor. Black and brown folks hit hardest. Public defenders drowning in cases while rich folks buy the best lawyers money can get.
They say, “Justice is blind.” Nah. She just don’t look down at the people she’s crushing.
Meanwhile, CEOs rake in 400 times what their workers make. Walmart, Amazon, McDonald’s… Their employees need food stamps just to survive. You pay your workers so little they need government assistance? That ain’t a job. That’s corporate welfare.
But guess who gets demonized. Not the billionaires hoarding wealth while the people who built this country live paycheck to paycheck. Not the politicians who give themselves raises while telling you a livable wage is “too expensive.”
Nah. They blame us: the poor, the sick, the immigrants, the workers.
Keep us fighting each other so we don’t fight them. That’s the real game. Division. Fear. Keep folks too busy hating their neighbors to notice the man robbing them blind.
Left versus right. White versus Black. Native versus immigrant. None of that matters to the ones in power. To them, we’re all just numbers, labor, consumers, votes. As long as we stay divided, we stay weak. As long as we’re scared, we stay obedient.
But I ain’t playing their game. And neither should you.
Look around: Who’s really screwing you over? The immigrant working three jobs or the executive who laid you off and shipped your job overseas? The single mom on food stamps or the landlord jacking up rent while the house falls apart? The protestor fighting for a better world or the politician selling yours to the highest bidder?
We gotta wake up. West Virginians know how to fight. We ain’t never backed down from a battle. We fought the coal barons, the union busters, the company thugs who tried to break us.
Blair Mountain wasn’t just history. It was a lesson: They don’t give us justice. We take it.
And this ain’t just about West Virginia. This is everywhere. If you’re tired of the lies—if you’re tired of getting crushed while the rich get richer, if you’re tired of watching the same corrupt politicians sell us out again and again—then do something!
Talk to your neighbors, organize, strike, vote, protest. Whatever it takes.
Thomas Paine said, “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
Just because we’ve been suffering under this system don’t mean it’s the way things gotta be. We don’t have to accept crumbs while the rich feast. We don’t have to settle for leaders who spit in our faces while shaking hands with billionaires.
This fight is ours—not just for us but for our kids. For the ones who come after. For a country that ain’t run by corporate puppets and Wall Street thieves.
I ain’t asking for miracles. I’m asking for action. If you want a change, then be the change. Help us take this fight to them.
West Virginians don’t kneel. We don’t beg. We fight.
Go to chaseforwv.org. Get involved. Let’s take back what’s ours.