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What is the biggest threat to America?
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catnap1972
Platinum Member
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! American Idol's on!
(and dont tell me to tape it cuz my vee-see-are is done broke--it keeps flashing 12:00)
Steeplerot
Lifer
ugh, you should try cleaning the spyware and muck off these peoples computers everyday.....ahhhhhhhh!
'murikans through and through, may the gods bless them in their ignorance and please don't get me bombed you idiots, amen
Promethply
Golden Member
Bush, Bin Ladens, The Saudis
Liberal gun law
Overly aggressive foreign policy
Self righteous attitudes
Disrespect for other countries sovereignty
Use of the entertainment industry to brainwash, and numb the people
Liberal gun law
Overly aggressive foreign policy
Self righteous attitudes
Disrespect for other countries sovereignty
Use of the entertainment industry to brainwash, and numb the people
Sheik Yerbouti
Lifer
The biggest threat to america is not dubya, it's our tolerance of him and his actions. We allowed it. We (supposedly) elected him. He had, and I quote "political capital, and I mean to spend it". Well the asshat spent it alright, he spent it at our expense. The expense of our freedoms, the patriot act is a very big threat as well. The ideas behind it are sound, the written version makes Castro proud.
I loathe dubya, I think of cheney and I retch, I see dumbsfeld and I wince, etc. These morons aren't the biggest threat, it's our apathy, our tolerance of their twisted, theocratic views that makes me scared. I wouldn't have voted for dubya, ever, and damn close to half of the country agreed with me. He didn't win by that much (percentage wise) but according to diebold, he had Kerry by several million votes.
Biggest threat? Our tolerance and acceptance that this is going to be the status quo. tommy delay getting away with crimes that would put another person away for decades. dubya LYING about WMD's. Condi Ricecakes being nothing more than a parrot, repeating what dubya says, and dickie cheney? He's just too fvcking scary to think about. If we continue to accept the lies, and the pandering and the propaganda, we will never get out of this alive.
I loathe dubya, I think of cheney and I retch, I see dumbsfeld and I wince, etc. These morons aren't the biggest threat, it's our apathy, our tolerance of their twisted, theocratic views that makes me scared. I wouldn't have voted for dubya, ever, and damn close to half of the country agreed with me. He didn't win by that much (percentage wise) but according to diebold, he had Kerry by several million votes.
Biggest threat? Our tolerance and acceptance that this is going to be the status quo. tommy delay getting away with crimes that would put another person away for decades. dubya LYING about WMD's. Condi Ricecakes being nothing more than a parrot, repeating what dubya says, and dickie cheney? He's just too fvcking scary to think about. If we continue to accept the lies, and the pandering and the propaganda, we will never get out of this alive.
imported_Reck
Golden Member
materialism (money and goods have precedence over all else. which is sickening, it's one of the reason why society is completely artificial)
social and government brainwashing, people are amazingly gullible
governing morality
incredibly hypocritical politicians
social and government brainwashing, people are amazingly gullible
governing morality
incredibly hypocritical politicians
Steeplerot
Lifer
thats a lot of caps dude, all those B's just for little old me?
BTW I could care less what you think quite a few members here enjoy my posts.
I dont see you contributing much here yourself besides naming who is part of your "in" crowd like some swarmy schoolgirl.
If you "thought for yourself" and used your eyes instead of your knee-jerk you would see I actually wrote a pretty long response here. But then I guess thinking for yourself means thinking like you do lol, typical.
Hehe, what a question? The problem with America, with the human race, is that it cannot understand what its problem is even when correctly diagnosed.
Everybody feels like he or she is the worst person in the world. This feeling is so deeply repressed and beyond conscious awareness that nobody has even the slightest inkling that this is even remotely true.
We do not know we feel like the worst in the world, we do not want to know we do, and we don't want to know we don't want to know.
The the consequences are devastating. Because we hate ourselves the notion of the Golden Rule becomes a disaster. We do treat others exactly like we treat ourselves, with profound hatred and contempt.
We have created a society that is based on hostility competition and hate. It is called the American Way. It is deeply psychotic and cannot be cured. Only the individual can escape. Humanity itself is bent on self destruction, the fate the worst in the world deserves.
That which you despise and hate you despise and hate from your own self hate.
There is only Love, so you can understand why you would be sad.
Everybody feels like he or she is the worst person in the world. This feeling is so deeply repressed and beyond conscious awareness that nobody has even the slightest inkling that this is even remotely true.
We do not know we feel like the worst in the world, we do not want to know we do, and we don't want to know we don't want to know.
The the consequences are devastating. Because we hate ourselves the notion of the Golden Rule becomes a disaster. We do treat others exactly like we treat ourselves, with profound hatred and contempt.
We have created a society that is based on hostility competition and hate. It is called the American Way. It is deeply psychotic and cannot be cured. Only the individual can escape. Humanity itself is bent on self destruction, the fate the worst in the world deserves.
That which you despise and hate you despise and hate from your own self hate.
There is only Love, so you can understand why you would be sad.
In this day and age we can make up for our lack of discipline with the discipline of others. It has been happening for a while.
People have already veritably hammered the apathy point down, no need to reiterate that, suffice it to say that I agree. Although I think perhaps the majority of the American populace is not apathetic at all, but ignorant and misguided. Apathy belongs to people like me, who are informed and rational, but don't care to stand up and use their knowledge to change things. People like me, and most likely many members on this forum, are less of an issue I think, because we are relatively rare.
Even rarer, of course, are the people who are informed, rational, and active. But that's okay. You only need so many leaders for any large group of people. But now our ignorant populace has given themselves over to demagogues, and they have been firmly entrenched. Expecting every citizen to be completely informed on every issue is unreasonable, but they should still be knowledgeable enough to choose a proper leader, and that's what makes a democracy viable.
jackschmittusa
Diamond Member
Single issue voters. The people who voted for GWB only because of his purported stance on gay marraige, or abortion, etc.. These people do not seem to have the ability to understand that there are many things to consider when deciding what is best for the country. While these so called "moral issues" may be very important to some people, they fail to realize that they are way down the list of things that are important to the country as a whole.
Since they have shown that they can influence an election, politicions will attempt to curry their favor, and we may never again hear a politician actually address his plans for doing what is best for America. The single issue voters have made it clear that elected officials need not serve the country, only their petty preferences. Sorry, but I think it is all downhill from here.
Since they have shown that they can influence an election, politicions will attempt to curry their favor, and we may never again hear a politician actually address his plans for doing what is best for America. The single issue voters have made it clear that elected officials need not serve the country, only their petty preferences. Sorry, but I think it is all downhill from here.
phillyTIM
Golden Member
Thanks, Tabb for your response to mine.
:thumbsup: :beer: to Sheik's post above as well.
Additionally, we have allowed the politicians (DeLay, Santorum, Bush, etc.) to jump all over the Shaivo case. Wasted a lot of our money with their travels and time, to politicize themselves and the event. American's should be mad as hell about who they put into office, they sure don't like how they are acting since they did.
Let the voters rise up and impeach them, if they really feel so strongly against them. Lest they become just like Bush, and talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
JulesMaximus
No Lifer
A shortage of non-expanding waistband pants.
cKGunslinger
Lifer
Fortunately, the typical P&N poster does *not* represent anything close to a majority in the "real world."
Of course, it's also unfortunate, because there are a few (very few) down-to-earth, practical people here with legitimate, workable solutions to problems.
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