We the People Have Spoken
“This is CBA here with President Jolistan, standing by to begin the address. Are we live, Harry?”
“Frequency received, CBA. Stand by...
"You are on air in three... two..."
*static*
″‘We the people... we the people!’
“That is a phrase from the founding literature of our nation. It is a phrase intended to give even the least among us a voice, to bring unity and equality to every one of us the people. However, it is also a phrase that has been spat upon, abused, and ignored by so many who would see themselves as above the common people. These elitists refuse to see us! But how much longer will they turn a blind eye?! I say no longer! I say show them! Show them that we remember the justice that belongs to us all! That we all shall not rest until we have won back that justice!”
*applause*
“Where does this disease begin? Where is the root of the corruption? Who are those that sow the seeds of poverty, of oppression, of this vast inequality? Even as I ask, you all know of whom I speak. How long will they sit high in their towers, contemptuously adrift of the true pains we face? How long will they continue to discriminate the company they keep, looking down on women and folks of color who want no more than to earn a fair wage, preferring the safe presence of other rich, white bastard cats, who show no interest in the common people but to shill us for every last penny in our pockets?! How long will they hide behind a facade of arduous labor, when even they know it is the labor of the underpaid they lie upon? How long will they lie?! How long will we allow them?!”
*roaring*
“I say from this moment we shall not! I SAY NO LONGER!”
*roaring applause*
“And of this singularity we shall remain! We must be hard of mind and of soul, for we cannot let in the vehement words of those reactionary! We cannot falter to their deceit! For their lies ring through the nation as the flaming serpents on the tongue of Hell! This we cannot allow! For this cause have we to fight; and fight we must! Fight we must, or this grave injustice will grow. This scourge that is the enemy of unity and just equality will fester in our nation until it becomes impossible for the oppressed and impoverished among us to live the dream that was meant to be America!”
*thunderous applause*
“This is a dream that we can and must realize! But it is a dream that we will never see without an absolute equity of station! Without an equal people, this nation is a shadow of what our founders intended! Irrefutably and unquestionably! And this just movement could never have come to pass without an enlightened people to drive it! It is you, and it is I, that shall set the governance of this country on the only true and worthy path! And though it was I who coalesced we the people into a single voice of freedom, I believe that truth will out among a good people! Were it not I, another would have come forth to lift the torch! For as this your truth is also mine, so is it OUR TRUTH! SO SHALL THIS NATION SEE US RISE! WE THE PEOPLE!
*applause*
“WE THE PEOPLE!”
*roaring applause*
“WE THE PEOPLE!”
*thunderous applause*
“WE… THE PEOPLE!”
*gun shot*
*silence*
…
*screaming*
*chaos*
*distortion*
“...the people have spoken! We the people have sp—”
*static*