"From American Revolutionary to American Apathy"

[MoonOwl]

Here's a few bits from a long rant:


"What happened Americans? Where is your fighting spirit? Where is your passion? Where is your pride? Your sense of dignity? Your self-worth? Is there anything that you really care about anymore?

Your personal privacy is gone. Your standard of living has plummeted. You can’t afford to live a basic middle-class life, even though you have two working parents. Your police force abuses its power; your politicians are corrupt and incompetent; you’re so far in debt that your American Dream is to make next month's payments, yet you trudge along grinding out a living like there’s something honorable about it."

......"Perhaps that will be enough to get a rise out of the American population, not that I'm really holding out much hope these days. Somehow you can fight tooth-and-nail for a $199 flat screen TV on Black Friday, beating your fellow citizens senseless for something you don’t even need. However, when it comes time to protecting your civil liberties, which you truly do need, you won’t even open your mouth to voice some opposition. And I thought the priorities of the government were screwed up."


http://www.activistpost.com/2010/12/from-american-revolutionary-to-american.html


Thoughts?
MO

 

[RedRyder]

It is a sad state of affairs indeed.

I sure wish I had all the answers.

From my little piece of the world.... I see layoffs of the working class while the administration of those businesses gets fatter. Then they seem to look at each other and wonder why the hell nothing can get done on time.

 

[All Else Failed]

Technology, feminization, further modernization and too much comfort

 

[darkangel]

We have turned into materialistic pigs! We care more about worldly possessions than almost anything else. The only things we voice are for our own selfish needs. We really need to band together and get things changed here instead of whacking each other over an item on sale on Black Friday!

 

[dkwrtw]

People don't want to think for themselves or fight for anything, they need some higher power such as the government to tell them how to think and feel and what to believe and also to blame their problems on, they don't want to take any personal responsibility for anything. :dunno

 

[Azazel]

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[Peter Parka]

I personally see it as a sign that you've got it pretty good. There really is nothing major you need to fight for. Pisses the lefty students off no end, fighting and being a martyr is the whole point of their existence.