(January 17, 2016 at 10:07 am)Crossless1 Wrote:(January 17, 2016 at 3:19 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Bread and circuses.
Exactly -- bread and circuses. The thing is, we're not supposed to be the modern equivalent of the Roman mob, but in many ways we're worse since we're supposed to know better. As a people, we've become soft and willfully ignorant of how thoroughly we're being fucked. I could go on and . . . oh, look at that shiny wedge issue! It's . . . irresistible and . . . shiny!
I'm a bit younger than Min, but my dawning awareness of politics as a child began around the time of Watergate. I, too, have been watching the whole thing go down the toilet since the Nixon years.
Revolution? In this country? What a fucking joke. We're a disgrace as a people. I want to puke in my soup every time I hear someone solemnly intone the founders, as though they would have done anything but despise us and everything we've become.
I feel no differently than you on all that, but please don't discourage the younger voters by spewing it here - they need all the encouragment they can get!
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