Go back to sleep America; your government is in control.

[CrispyQ]

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1006-31.htm

Why Don't Americans Care?
Do you know who Halliburton is? Dick Cheney? How about Karl Rove? Alas, Most Americans Don't

By Mark Morford

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This is what we in the media and maybe you in the media-consuming audience tend to forget far too easily: This country is simply jam-packed with millions of people who have no time for, or interest in, politics, or media, or environmental policy, or education, or global issues, or which presidential candidate lied his ass off about which aspect of his military career and which Orange Alert is totally bogus and how many soldiers are dying for what imbecilic war.

It seems hard to believe. But the general rule of thumb is that major cities are slightly more attuned due to aggressive media saturation and how issues tend to make themselves known more urgently, more immediately, whereas Middle America is a scattershot conglomeration of the politically apathetic and the actively disenfranchised, full of people far too busy with their lives and kids and jobs and zoning out on "Fear Factor" and "Monday Night Football" to care about following the elitist, ever dire dramas playing out on the nation's gilded stages.

Most Americans, in other words, have no idea what the hell a Halliburton is. Or a Karl Rove. Or a Donny "Shriveled Soul" Rumsfeld. Or a Lockheed Martin. Or a Carlysle Group. Or have any idea that Saddam had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11. Or that WMDs were never found. Or that President Bush has taken more vacation time than any president in U.S. history. Or that Jesus thinks Dubya is "sort of a dink." Or where Iraq is on a map.


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...In short, as the theory goes, most Americans don't give a damn because we're on top and we own everything and have more nukes than anyone and we're never the ones getting invaded. It's our unofficial motto -- America: We Don't Have to Care.

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If we don't counter this trend, we're fucked. And we will deserve to be, too.

[patrice]

1. More proof that "Christianity" is a failure. Churches are businesses.

They should be taxed.

[apnu]

2. The trend of apathy is indeed a problem

However, keep your eye on what, actually, makes this election so important in terms of apathy.

The GOP is pleased as punch that most Americans are apathetic and sick of politics. That most Americans are burnt out on politics from the 1960s or they were brought up by the burnt out to despise politics

Why? because the GOP is a collection of soulless radicals and they know it. They also know that their agenda doesn't jive with any other group of people in the world. So low voter turn out means they can do whatever they want and no one cares.

Enter the liberals...

Although JK is not the first choice of a majority here (if the bloody primary season is evidence of anything its evidence of this) he is a better person to help route the apathy in America.

Only when we have a leader who might actually listen to the people will we have a chance of countering this trend. Do you honestly think that under shrubbie we can counter the trend of the turned off and pissed off?

The upside to all of this (including the bloody primary season) is that the Dem and liberal bases are fired up. We, the greatest of the apathetics (well my generation anyway -- that being generation X) are now so pissed off for various reasons that we've ceased being apathetic and feel compelled to do something about it.

I'm one of the apathetic now fired up, here is my DU story: (which made the front page! wh00t!) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=1440264