Kareem: The system is designed to keep regular Americans with common sense either in poverty or damn close to poverty and under their thumb for their entire lives. We're coming to a point where it's going to be impossible to deny what's actually happening, he says. Kareem: If we do wake up, we could create the best America that's ever existed. And like I said on our last CTI, I have serious doubts that we'll be able to pull through.