Why are most Americans "Asleep"?

[videogames101]

I say we get together and get a candidate thats not independent but say a new party, called: Smart people that are trying to deal with issues that the goverment is to stupid and cut-throat to do anything about, or SPTATTDWITTGITSACTTDAA for short. Now that we can screw the republicans and democrats we can get something done. Too bad americans don't even realize we aren't dealing with a 300,000,000 dollar debt.

 

[Orignal Earl]

It starts the moment you start to be aware of your surroundings. Everything(media, people) is telling you, your in the greatest country in the world
You start school and start reciting the peldge
Most of the bad things have been hidden in text books and the good things are greatly exaggerated ( America saved the world in WW2)
All the bad things can be blamed on others- Democrates, Republicans, Communists, Unions, Parents, France, Blacks, Mexico, Canada, Catholics, Baptists, Muslims and the Irish
People are getting more and more isolated because of crime and distrust, the internet has opened the doors to tons of information on one hand and has become a sort of social bypass on the other.
If your -30 and are reading this you more then likely grew up in a comfortable bubble and if anything threatens that bubble its probably one of the *all bad things can be blamed on* things
People just close up and wait for it all to blow over
Everyone has some kind of faith

-Just some scattered thoughts

 

[Tab]

If I ever happen to win the powerball, I'd put some serious thought into forming a libertarian party - socially liberal and economically conservative.

 

[Dissipate]

Originally posted by: Tab
If I ever happen to win the powerball, I'd put some serious thought into forming a libertarian party - socially liberal and economically conservative.

First of all, you play the lottery? And if so, do you realize you are funding big government?

Second of all, there is already a Libertarian Party. LP

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Dissipate

Originally posted by: Zebo
Why you say that?

Classic strawman tactic right here:

According to the new mythology, human beings are economic competitors. The ?marketplace? is the new ?Valhalla?, where ?economic man? frolics. The ?market? we are told, contains its own ?rationality?. It rewards the efficient. It rewards that list of virtues George Will cites, like ?thrift?, ?delayed gratification? and of course, ?hard work?. Free competition in the market place ?rationally? selects the more ?worthy? competitor. Thus, the wealthy are the superior competitors who have ?earned? their elite status. If you haven?t succeeded it can only be because of your ?inferiority?.

I don't see a straw man at all most conservatives believe just that - turn on limbaugh or read a couple thread here - hell I even believe it to a certain extent since there's some truth in every arguement.

 

[Dissipate]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: Dissipate

Originally posted by: Zebo
Why you say that?

Classic strawman tactic right here:

According to the new mythology, human beings are economic competitors. The ?marketplace? is the new ?Valhalla?, where ?economic man? frolics. The ?market? we are told, contains its own ?rationality?. It rewards the efficient. It rewards that list of virtues George Will cites, like ?thrift?, ?delayed gratification? and of course, ?hard work?. Free competition in the market place ?rationally? selects the more ?worthy? competitor. Thus, the wealthy are the superior competitors who have ?earned? their elite status. If you haven?t succeeded it can only be because of your ?inferiority?.

I don't see a straw man at all most conservatives believe just that - turn on limbaugh or read a couple thread here - hell I even believe it to a certain extent since there's some truth in every arguement.

In spite of the glib quotation marks it is true. Everything except for the last part and the fact that what he is talking about is not myth.

I don't know of any free market advocates who claim that lack of success in business is due to 'inferiority.'

 

[jman19]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: jman19
Sorry, contributing little is better than contributing garbage.

Garbage++

I agree, that post was garbage!

 

[Dissipate]

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