We need to talk. This may end up being the most serious post I end up making on this blog, so let’s get our stern faces on.

Media personality Steven Crowder of Louder With Crowder just blew the lid on an enormous human trafficking operation that’s being run right here in the United States, where slavery is illegal.

It’s an hour-long documentary, and if you’re interested and have the time, here it is:

Say what you will about Steven Crowder, but remember when journalists actually engaged in investigative journalism? Because I sure don’t.

But here we are: there’s an enormous slavery and sex trafficking ring, right here in the United States, right in Colorado. And the one to step up to bat is none other than Steven Crowder.

Americans have a strange relationship with slavery. We pride ourselves on being among the first countries on earth to outlaw slavery, but we have little problem benefiting from it when we don’t have to see it happening, usually because it’s not happening within our own borders.

Perhaps chief of which being Jeff Bezos. The guy has a huge shipping operation going on which benefits massively from Chinese slavery, and he gets away with it because there’s a layer of plausible deniability between him and the slavery that made him one of the richest people alive.

And this brings up a difficult question: how does one propose fighting it? Americans benefit from slavery, too. If you own a smartphone, its components were likely made by slaves. If you don’t, you’re probably not competitive in the modern world. Most Americans need some form of computing in order to function in the connected world.

And it’s not just computing, it’s also agriculture. Much of what you could buy in supermarkets at least has ingredients that were produced by slaves. Not comfortable to think about.

And when it comes down to it, it’s more practical to spend less money on a comparable product to what you’ve been considering. Low income people tend towards cheaper alternatives, and it’s often slavery that makes certain products cheaper.

Even wealthier people like to virtue signal with their electric vehicles, not giving mind to the cobalt mines that resulted in their EV batteries.

For much of human history, slavery was a fact of life, and how business got done. And in much of the world today, it’s still that way.

Knowing that, how does it feel knowing you paid less for some off-brand product on Amazon, with a name consisting of a jumbling of search terms? Did you remember to leave a review for your FUNDILY Mug Cup With Handle Novelty Insulated Happy Magical Spacekitties Gift for Men Women? Your reviews make a difference, after all.

But there’s more to this issue, and that’s that the Chinese Communist Party also benefits from this. And Emperor Xi has got a chubby for his party becoming the world’s dominant power. I’m skeptical that it’s actually happening as quickly as some might think (the CCP is famously unreliable when it comes to anything that could make them look bad), it’s sobering that any faction as morally dubious as the CCP could become as prominent as they are.

Yes, I’m aware that ours is the same country that elected the Biden crime family.

But let’s stop and think about this: If the CCP is willing to look the other way when their own fellow Chinese are put to forced labor and sex slavery as long as the CCP stands to benefit, what do you suppose that they’d do to you if they’d have any power over you?

And considering that they’ve got land upon which they’re running illegal drug-growing and prostitution cartels in your very own country, it’s closer to happening than you might think.

And when you think on that, there’s an ugly thought that you might come to: it’s possible that the CCP might actually attain superpower status because they are willing to disregard any moral standards if it means getting ahead, they’re facing such little resistance in so doing, and because they’re willing to do what most others would not, sacrificing their own people in ways that most societies would not dare.

As sickening as it is to think of, those who wish to do America harm have found its weakness: it’s got millions of dumbasses who love getting high. And while these people have long been a problem for the rest of us, it looks like there’s a new way for society to pay the price for tolerating their bullshit.

So, here we are, ladies and gentlemen. Something’s gotta change. Because one way or another, it certainly will.