It’s been five years since I was hit from behind by a speeding semi truck while stopped for a construction zone flagman. Insurance refused to pay for any medical expenses or damages from the accident and on the street I went. A judge ruled the truck driver and truck owners had no responsibility for their actions which meant no chance of changing my situation and sentencing me to die on the street. All because I obeyed the law and stopped for that flagman.
Today, I am in the same location I was five years ago, in the desert living in the back of my truck. My bank account has less money than the fifty dollars I had five years ago, but like many Americans, I live from Social Security check to Social Security check, as other live from paycheck to paycheck. Some of those people, mostly elderly people and veterans, are living around me in the desert as well, left behind by America’s greed driven economy. Refugees from America’s failed system of government, betrayed by a lifetime of lies, their only crime was buying into the “American Dream”, likely the biggest lie of them all.
In the five years of my life on the road, I have watched from the outside in as America spirals into chaos. COVID, Donald Trump, the dividing of America into left and right with no middle ground. In the months and years following the accident, I found out by first hand direct experience that politicians, police, government officals, etc. are all corrupt. The American government and economy is failing because it never was designed to support a balanced civilzation, only to make a few extremely rich at the expense of everyone else. I don’t believe America will survive the next presidential election in 2024. How can anyone trust the system? Lack of trust in just about everything is going to cripple the country.
That being said, if I have anything to say, which I do, it’s getting near time to do so. Hopefully it will do some good. Since half of Americans can’t read and no matter what you say or do, half the people will be against you, it would be a very small light in a very big, dark hole. It’s hard enough to be a good writer about positive things, to have to write about the demise of civilization while you’re in it takes a lot more motivation. It’s something I feel I have to do, so I will do the best I can.
1-20-2025 ronbosroad.com website is online. Links updated.