Luigi

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The healthcare system is a disaster.

Deny claims.

Make people jump through hoops or die trying while getting rich off the despair.

Luigi Mangione is not a hero. Some people are making him out to be one. 

He allegedly went to New York and gunned down a CEO.

The world cheered the death of the CEO. Luigi was captured at a McDonalds in Altoona, PA., and he was ready for the arrest.

He released a manifesto of sorts that spelled out the horrible treatment that he and his family received.

Claims were denied.

The kid’s Mom suffered for years.

Luigi suffered.

This wasn’t some dumb kid. He’s intelligent by all measures - well-educated, a member of a rich family.

He planned and executed the man as a statement to wake up America as to the systematic destruction of human lives.

There was a better way to handle such a protest. Murder isn’t the answer.

Luigi will go to jail.

No one will listen to what he had to say…

…like the Unabomber…

…he will be dismissed as a madman.

Yet, there will more of these protests in the coming years.

I believe that social security is in real danger.

I’ve heard some in the incoming administration say that the retirement age will be raised and the money that people receive will be reduced.

America is not going to stand for it.

I know a lot of people reaching retirement age…

…they’ve worked hard for decades and they’re counting it down to 62 or 65.

Suddenly, on the whims of a South African born man who bought the presidency…

…we are going to work to 70 or 72 or 75?

That won’t be tolerated.

There will be thousands of Luigi’s - armed to the teeth - rampaging across this once great land.

Luigi isn’t a hero, but he had a point…

…greed will destroy us…

…and the uprising will be scary.

There are a lot of CEO’s shaking in their boots.

But the system won’t change without true accountability.

Billionaires are in charge. They aren’t going to help the non-billionaires.

Luigi should’ve realized that much.

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