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Originally Posted by kretinus
I think it's simply because this nation has been content to sit back and do nothing while both parties became slaves to special interest groups who serve agendas instead of the country.....The balance was lost, and now real America is a ping pong ball being knocked about between opposing forces.
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we are not only content, we are snowballed. i know people who vote republican because that's how their parents voted. they have no idea what the republican platform is, nor what the democratic platform is. they were just raised to believe that good americans are republicans. and vice versa.
americans are programmed from birth. we are taught that our country is the greatest country. that our government is the best government. that living the american dream is the ideal way of life. as long as we can sit back on our couches watching our big screen tv's, drive our gas guzzling suv's, and ride our boats, rv's, 4 x 4's, etc. on the weekend, we don't give a damn about poverty, pollution, starvation, disease, or anything else. we just happily go about our lives with blinders on to the ugly truth.
and we are afraid of change no matter how much change is needed. we are unwilling to make any kind of sacrifice for the general good. we want to continue to live the american dream, no matter what harm comes from it.
so as long as we have ours, we are going to keep voting for the same assholes who are slaves to their campaign contributors, the ones that are programming us. as long as they can make us think that we are living the good life, then they can continue to get rich off of us. and as long as we remain contented with our little slice of the pie, we seem to be happy to go on living oblivious.