What Would Actually Make America Great Again? (Hint: It’s Not More Gossip.)
- Lynn Matthews
- 3 minutes ago
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America is obsessed with gossip. Not progress, not prosperity, not making life easier for the people who actually keep this country running — but gossip. The political class and the media industrial complex have turned our national conversation into a circus sideshow, where scandal sells better than solutions, and chaos keeps the clicks rolling in.
While elites scream about the latest Trump insult, the newest Epstein document dump, or whatever political feud keeps social media frothing for 24 hours, real Americans are trying to survive. Groceries cost more than car payments. Utility bills look like rent. Crime is rising. Small businesses are suffocating under taxes and regulations. Families are being priced out of their own country.
So let’s cut through the noise — WECU style — and talk about what would actually make America great again.
Spoiler:
It’s not another committee hearing.
Not another leaked email.
Not another cable news meltdown.
Not another politician trending on X.
It’s the basics. The fundamentals. The things Americans used to have before Washington became a self-rewarding empire.
Make America Affordable Again
If you want a thriving country, you start with this: people have to be able to live in it.
Right now? Too many can’t.
Housing is unaffordable.
Rent eats half of a paycheck.
Insurance premiums are a sick joke.
Groceries climb every single month.
Utilities drain bank accounts like a slot machine.
But instead of fixing affordability, Washington focuses on… what, exactly?
A feud between MTG and Trump?
Committee members fistfighting on TikTok?
Another "bombshell" from 2019 they magically rediscovered?
It’s a distraction machine — and it’s intentional.
If Americans were actually focused on the price of milk, heating, and rent, half of Congress would be unemployed.
Lower Taxes for the People Who Create Jobs (Not the Ones Shipping Them Overseas)
Small businesses are the engine of the American economy.So naturally, Washington treats them like an ATM.
Meanwhile:
multinational corporations get tax breaks
global banks get bailouts
climate pet projects get billions
foreign programs get blank checks
But the mom-and-pop shop on Main Street?They get audited, fined, regulated, and taxed into extinction.
You want more jobs? Stop strangling the people who create them.
Lower Utility Bills — Because Heat Shouldn’t Be a Luxury
America sits on oceans of energy.
We can power the world.
We can bring down costs overnight.
Instead, utility bills have doubled because politicians want to “transform” the grid while ordinary Americans are just trying to keep the lights on.
People don’t need transformation.
They need relief.
Less Crime. More Consequences.
You cannot build greatness on lawlessness.
But cities keep choosing ideology over safety:
No jail time for theft
Open-air drug markets
Revolving door judges
Police departments defunded
Soros-backed prosecutors letting criminals walk
Meanwhile, the media tells us the real problem is… what?
Who followed who on social media?
Who unfriended who in Congress?
Americans don’t need gossip.
They need safe streets.
Real Jobs. Real Pay. Real Stability.
A strong nation gives its citizens the dignity of work — not dependency.
But instead:
Manufacturing was offshored
Wages are suppressed
Illegal immigration floods the labor market
Education produces debt, not skills
Regulations smother growth
Washington talks about “equity” while Americans drown in economic insecurity.
Here’s a wild idea:
Bring back the jobs.
Bring back the factories.
Bring back the paychecks that support an entire family — not just a tank of gas.
A Government That Serves the People — Not Itself
This is the heart of it.
America’s government is too big, too bloated, and too addicted to crisis spending.
COVID spending never ended — it metastasized.
Programs that were “temporary” became permanent.
Bureaucracies expanded and never shrank.
We have:
Programs we don’t need
Agencies that overlap
Grants that fund activist organizations
Federal employees who can’t be fired
Billions going overseas to climate experiments, “gender equity,” and god-knows-what programs that have nothing to do with the American people
Meanwhile, the average family is deciding which bill not to pay this month.
America doesn’t need more government.
It needs a government that remembers who it works for.
What Would Actually Make America Great Again?
Not scandal.
Not drama.
Not endless political theater.
Not the next “bombshell” that changes nothing.
Greatness is simple:
Make life affordable.
Make work possible.
Make streets safe.
Make government smaller.
Make opportunity real.
If the media covered those things with the same obsession they devote to Trump’s latest comment, Epstein’s court filings, celebrity gossip, or DC personality feuds, this country would be unrecognizable — in the best way.
But they won’t.
Because chaos sells.
Distraction protects the powerful.
And every minute Americans are arguing about nonsense is another minute Washington escapes accountability.
That’s why WECU exists.
To say the quiet part loudly.
To drag the spotlight back to what matters.
To give Americans the conversation their leaders refuse to have.
The path to greatness starts with one thing:
Turning off the nonsense and demanding better.
And WECU is here to light that fire. 🔥
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