Notice how we drift from one atrocity & outrage to the next, & yet...

[Philosoraptor]

...it just keeps getting worse? And it seems that each new horror and scandal stays on the radar for a few days, and then fades into the next disgusting news, as if it's just another week.

Are we too sensitized to the slow motion collapse of humanity that we hardly notice it anymore?

Sure, we here are outraged, but the majority of folks are just zombies apparently.

[MadMaddie]

1. To think that Americans were more outraged by a BJ the big dog

got...no one got killed, everyone was working, the economy was growing....

Yet this man has broken over 750 laws and continues to do so and Americans are dying overseas and yet they are not calling for his impeachment...

[Philosoraptor]

5. They had to fish for years and years and yet found nothing criminal.

Until he lied under oath, the greatest crime anyone can commit.

Yet we can't find, or don't have the desire to find anything to pin on him.

[librechik]

19. Americans were NOT outraged at the BJ

it was just a bunch of calculated phony BS from Republicans with worse moral landscapes by FAR than the Dog.

Americans are just fine--but nobody in Congress is making a move to give us what we want in govt policies. They're all slaves to the corporate teat.Americans are overwhelmingly pro-choice--they try to fight about it anyway. They gnaw at the incipient racism in the populace instead of showing how to be smart and tolerant. They ignore the benefits of universal healthcare and allow lobbyists to write the laws instead of The People.

Americans are not at fault here--there was an illegal coup (at some point--1980?) and we are the victims.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. At least we will know in the future, when 19 Iraqis hijack some

jetliners EXACTLY WHY THE F*CK the hate us.

[Redstone]

3. I've wondered that myself. All sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Then on to the next thing...all things that would cause riots in the street, gutters running with blood, in any other country.

But we just forget about it because hey, American Idol is coming on in a few minutes!

Redstone

[RagAss]

4. We sure ain't French are we?

Their goverenment tried to pass a bad employment law last month and the working class lit up the streets....the law was shelved "toot sweet"...

[bluethruandthru]

6. Not zombies

I think people have no idea what they can do about it. We allow the Ann Coulters and Rush Limbaughs of the world to set the agenda. Granted, we don't have access to the airwaves that they do (which will hopefully change when we reinstate The Fairness Doctrine!) but we can do something. We need to keep putting pressure on our media outlets and our elected officials. Let them know that you're mad as hell. Tell them you're tired of hearing about Brad and Angelina..you want answers to questions that really matter. We need to continue to demand that Congress conducts investigations into illegal wiretapping, torture, signing statements, the lack of accountability with our tax dollars in Iraq, etc., etc., etc. We need the media and our senators and congresspersons to know that we're paying attention and we don't like what we see. It's time to demand that they all do their jobs!

We may not have much power individually, but collectively, we can move mountains!

[BeFree]

8. And...

...what about them making your vote worthless?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

7. there you go... I call it OUTRAGE OVERLOAD K&R

[Dinger]

9. Burying One Scandal With Another

If anything, we're desensitized imo.

[bonito]

10. It is odd but most are complacent

not part of the steering committee, comfortably numb, waking up is hard thing to do when your comfortable, the reason there is no draft is to keep the people asleeple.

[snot]

11. Keeping the sh*t coming is part of their strategy --

by the time we figure out any one thing they're up to, they've initiated 3 more horrors.

[omega minimo]

12. Notice how you OP from one atrocity & outrage to the next

and it seems that each new horror and scandal OP stays on the radar for a few minutes and then fades into the next disgusting news, as if it's just another drift from one atrocity & outrage to the next.........



:wow:

[Philosoraptor]

13. Yeah, I thought I was the only one who noticed that.

[bdamomma]

14. it has been like this for a long time

they are trying to break us, easy to say, but we have to challenge them. Why all this talk about giving up? to these assholes.

[karmababy]

15. no one knows what to do about it

...so they do nothing. No one wants to think that they are the ones that are going to have to do something. But we are ALL going to have to do something, they will not stop until we stop them.

[Philosoraptor]

18. 1 person can't do it, nor 100. But millions CAN.

It will happen, I just wish it would hurry up.

[Skip Intro]

16. Are we being manipulated? Played?

I have to wonder how big the charade is...

[niallmac]

17. I live in Bushlandia Idaho and nothing fazes folks here.

I am positively convinced that we could parachute troops into Andorra tomorrow and bomb some 'terrorist homes' and then when the people
started to fight back and shoot at us the Bushlandians would just go out and buy more 'Support The Troops'
magnets. In Bushlandia we are hooked on war. In Bushlandia we encourage our kids to join the military and
if they are sent to a war that is sort of confusing well, anyway, pray to the Lord they get back ok but never doubt
the Preznit. I don't fucking get it.

[The2ndWheel]

20. They Thought They Were Free

http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were_Free.html

"Those," I said, "are the words of my friend the baker. "One had no time to think. There was so much going on." "Your friend the baker was right," said my colleague. "The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your "little men", your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned men, mind you. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about - we were decent people - and kept us so busy with continuous changes and "crises" and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the "national enemies", without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. Unconsciously, I suppose, we were grateful. Who wants to think?

"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it - please try to believe me - unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, "regretted," that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these "little measures" that no "patriotic German" could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.

"How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice - "Resist the beginnings" and "consider the end." But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings. One must foresee the end clearly and certainly and how is this to be done, by ordinary men or even by extraordinary men? Things might have changed here before they went as far as they did; they didn't, but they might have. And everyone counts on that might.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

21. I think their days in power are numbered...But it will be Gas Prices

that do the GOP in.

There will be no "strong economy" to run on. No happy Wall Street.

Have I mentioned how much I dislike these people??

[wiggs]

22. Haven't you heard? The economy is doing great! And gas prices are

half of those in Europe.

Any increase in gas prices is due to destabilizing influences of Venezuela and Iran...and environmentalists who have kept refineries from being built in the US....and liberals who won't let big oil drill in ANWR or off the coast of California.

People are already used to gas over 3 dollars per gallon. Guess who will take credit when prices drop by 25 cents after summer?

Price of gas and energy policy is no different than any other issue...divisiveness, blame, confusion, corporate lobbying to both sides of aisle, spin, deception, and lack of effective public discourse will win the day.