The Planned Murder of Small-Town 'Merica
Your Town Isn’t ‘Changing.’ It’s Being Deliberately Murdered.
Your Town Isn’t ‘Changing.’ It’s Being Deliberately Murdered.
For 10 years, I’ve watched from my gas station register as corporate chains replaced every small business. This isn’t “progress.” It’s a corporate occupation, and I have the receipts.
(Ethan Faulkner) For the last ten years, I’ve had a front-row seat to the death of an American town.
My gas station is on a main road. When I started this job a decade ago, I was surrounded by a community. There was a family-owned bakery on the corner, a local hardware store run by a guy named Mark, two independent pharmacies, and a diner where you could get coffee for a buck.
Today, the bakery is a CVS. The hardware store is a skeleton, hollowed out by a new Walmart Neighborhood Market that opened two miles away. The diner is a Starbucks. The pharmacies are both gone, replaced by a single, massive Walgreens.
This isn’t “change.” It’s not “evolution.” It’s the result of a deliberate, systemic, and predatory campaign.
Your town isn’t “changing.” It’s being hollowed out. And the people doing it are counting on you being too distracted by their political puppet show to…