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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 07:13 AM Original message |
Why Are Americans Passive as Millions Lose Their Homes, Jobs, Families and the American Dream? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 07:41 AM Response to Original message |
1. What are the alternatives? Mobs? |
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Paranoid Pessimist (432 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 02:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
19. If people were to attempt hitting the streets, we'd be |
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surrealAmerican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 10:06 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. Boy, is your username ever appropriate! |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
2. The story from the media is, people who spent more money |
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cutlassmama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-03-10 07:03 AM Response to Reply #2 |
26. you got it. the media has been sent to lull the sheep. |
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aaronbav (148 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
3. K&R |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
4. Americans are passive because they have been pacified |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 12:52 PM Response to Reply #4 |
17. also the drinking water is full of flouride..... |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 02:09 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I wish it was Valium. |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-06-10 01:25 PM Response to Reply #17 |
32. Bullshit. |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 08:24 AM Response to Original message |
5. Because a temper tantrum and strikes don't create jobs? |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 09:12 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Strikes gave you a five day work week |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 08:25 AM Response to Original message |
6. Each American should create a good paying job with benefits for someone else! |
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ChairmanAgnostic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
7. F.E.A.R. |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-06-10 01:05 PM Response to Reply #7 |
31. When you're one paycheck from being permanently on the street |
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WhiteTara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
8. shock doctrine politics keeps |
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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 11:09 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Yes, and add in a little... |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 11:49 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. alot of generalizations here..many of us that don't have the "problems " are worried about those |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
10. Why couldn't Lenin rally the serfs? |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 10:20 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. And even then Lenin failed as to the peasants |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 10:32 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Point well taken |
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Hestia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 10:19 AM Response to Original message |
11. or could it be that the American Dream is just that? As George Carlin said, |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 11:33 AM Response to Original message |
15. Short answer: the most advanced propaganda network in human history |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 09:18 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. And as I keep saying, the Powell Memo is one of the toxic roots of this poison tree. |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 09:25 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. It all hides in plain sight, doesn't it? |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 09:50 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. And once you do see it, |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
20. People THOUGHT they were doing something by voting for Obama |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 09:45 AM Response to Reply #20 |
27. Great post. |
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northofdenali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
25. The ONLY people in my area who have any money at all |
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classysassy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
28. Fox news and hate radio |
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tomm2thumbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-05-10 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
29. prior to the Great Depression.... |
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Larkspur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-06-10 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
30. I think David Sirota is correct when he says that Progressive groups |
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