The Long Road Here [History]:

[Long Tooth Jack]

It's hard to say exactly when it all started. I would say that it was too far back to remember, but I don't think that I was even born when the metaphorical shit started successively hitting the also-metaphorical fan.

It stated way-far-back. Way-far-back when they started categorizing us and telling us we had mental diseases and that some of us were different, or that we were all too average, and needed to be more different. So we tried to get different, only to find ourselves average. An endless cycle of never being perfect enough. And then they introduced advertising: Something that promised the perfecting they told us we could never attain. And then we became consumers.

By the time I came raging out of the womb, people'd already crossed over.

They've slowly, but surely, been integrating new ideas into the system: New socialist views cleverly disguised to support the liberal agenda, and eventually taking over the republican agenda, too. They tell us that this's a democracy, but some of the choices are so just-plain-stupid that you'd never pick them. Like that election between Bob Goodman and Larry Rudolst? Who on Earth would vote for Larry Rudolst? That man can't even finish a speech without stuttering over every single word that he says, and he definitely doesn't have any bright and shining ideas or promises to fix the future. Against the charismatic Bob Goodman? Larry Rudolst didn't stand a chance. Bob Goodman won by an overwhelming majority. They told us that we had a choice. But we didn't. Not really.

But that's politics. It's all half-truths and full-lies.

That's brainwashing.

Nobody wants the truth, anyway.

They told us that violence was bad, even when you're trying to protect your home. They made stupid laws with stupid loopholes that allowed criminals to get away scot-free with breaking into your home. Some of the loopholes even allowed criminals to sue you for injuring them during the break-in. They told us that guns were the root of violence, and crime, and drugs. They told us they could fix that. They told us that they wanted to get rid of guns.

We agreed, wholeheartedly.

We let them take away the right to defend ourselves. We didn't care. By that time, we believed everything that they said, because we'd stopped asking questions long before they'd started imposing their views.

Television. Radio. Advertising. The need to be accepted by the people around us was used against us.

Good ol' Bobby palling it up with the millionaires and the billionaires while the middle class slowly disappeared until it was just the shlumps below the poverty line and the snobs with their armani suits and their Ferarris. Nothing in between. Not anymore.

We became mindless drones, and we didn't even realize it. We thought we were happy.

They told us that they were doing all of these things for our safety. Gun protection. The curfew. Books that we shouldn't read. Books that we should read. Televisions shows that we shouldn't watch. Internet communications that shouldn't happen. They tell us that they're even working on a new mechanism that can 'keep out all those bad thoughts'. And they say they're doing it for us.

We believe them.

They never blatantly stated that if you didn't want Bob Goodman in office, then they were going to take away your job and cut your rations in half. They never blatantly stated it, but that's what they did. If you weren't a supporter, then you were nothing.

If you weren't a supporter, you didn't get food. You didn't get money. You didn't get a home. You didn't get a life. You didn't get anything, except maybe a black eye, a bloody nose, and a busted lip.

When the Red came rolling through, they only offered vaccinations to people that supported Bob Goodman and his New Hope. Bob Goodman! The man with the plan! Re-elect, 2011.

Bob Goodman.