Champagne Confessions

We are no longer the country we imagined ourselves to be. Not because of a politician. Not because of a party.

But because the ground beneath our flag has shifted, quietly, legally, and without consent.

Laws are not dead.

They are dormant.

And now, they are waking up.

Roe v. Wade.

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

The Comstock Act of 1873.

These are not footnotes.

They are foundations, rising, not to haunt us, but to rule us again.

And most Americans don’t even recognize their names.

We chant “freedom” like it’s muscle memory, but rarely ask:Freedom for whom? And at what cost?

We confuse noise with awakening, protest with knowledge.But consciousness is not loud, it is informed. It is deliberate. It is earned.

America is not asleep. It is manic, lurching between extremes.Each side calling itself the light, and the other, the apocalypse.

And amid this chaos, history isn’t just repeating, it’s returning.

The Comstock Act, once a relic banning “obscenities” and contraceptives by mail, is being resurrected to dictate modern healthcare.

The Alien Enemies Act still grants power to detain or deport those from “hostile” nations, an origin story re-scripted for a globalized world. Roe’s reversal wasn’t just a legal shift. It was a cultural rupture. A statement that bodily autonomy is negotiable, again.

This isn’t about partisanship.This is about memory. Because what we fail to remember, we will inevitably relive.

Can the average American still afford to be American? This is not a question of patriotism. It’s a question of participation. And participation without education is performance.

If our rights are determined by which laws we forgot to repeal, then democracy isn’t broken.It’s rigged by omission. We’ve mistaken comfort for clarity. But power thrives in silence.

And while we were busy arguing online, the playbook was already being rewritten, by those who never stopped reading it.

This isn’t about whether you’re red or blue.

It’s about whether you’re awake.

Have you read the bills you repost?

Do you know the laws being revived in your name?

Do you understand the cost of staying loud, but uninformed?

Because America doesn’t need another savior.It needs citizens.Capable. Thinking. Ruthless in their pursuit of truth.

We’ve built a nation on division.But maybe it’s time to become architects again. To reframe this moment not as our downfall, but our reckoning.

Not with rage. But with reason.

If you feel chills reading this,good.

That’s not fear.

That’s the truth, finally cutting through the noise.