America is too complacent

[Jeffersons Ghost]

The Gulf Catastrophe, where only limited reporting of real events is allowed, is just one example.

Inflation is devaluating retirement and savings accounts, as many people are evicted from their homes.

Unions are nearly busted in the US. While the cost of everything is going up, the value of labor remains static.

The cost of college is pricing higher-education right out of the reach of the middle class.

With net-neutrality looming, Big Business is about to severely limit our last bastion of free-press.

The only times government has taken notice in the past, was when large numbers of people rallied together and stood up for what is right.

With the strangle-hold Big Business has on traditional news media, I wonder if that type protest can get enough publicity to successfully organize.

Basically, we're screwed more than we know and are all waiting for Superman to come rescue us from Big Business. He's not here. He's not coming.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

1. a kick for what little I do to combat this issue... if all we can do is publicize these issues,...

I'll kick and rec stuff like this for now.

[RKP5637]

2. Citizens today are complacent lambs walking to the slaughter house with their

heads up their butts...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

7. I hate to agree with this but its true

[Golden Raisin]

8. Or less concerned with

protesting the loss of their Constitutional Rights and swift descent into economic serfdom than keeping up with the Kardashians and Dancing With The Stars.

[Oregone]

3. There is a natural struggle between the desires of the elite and the needs of the people

Much of modern politics is about addressing this struggle in a manner that is beneficial for everyone; today's practices ensure safe and stable marketplaces by pacifying the masses with basic human rights and extended benefits. The cost the elite must pay to continue to exploit the people is rather low, compared to what they can get forever in return.

What we are now learning, is that this entire struggle can be augmented with cheap plastic shit. Who needs rights when you have an iPod.

Its a brave new world. Only time will tell what is ahead.

[City Lights]

4. K&R.

I can sum up our society with two words: American Idle.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

11. that's very good. and yes, TV is the problem

[snot]

5. Agreed, these are impt. factors in a "perfect storm" of factors

resulting in a more or less brainwashed populace.

For more, see everything you can by Eliz. Warren and Adam Curtis.

[bluethruandthru]

6. We will continue to decline as a country if we don't wake up

and look around us. We need to realize that we are being spoon fed the pablum that the MSM media sees fit to give us. We've allowed our government to be taken over by slaves to corporations and they in turn have given their masters whatever they've asked for. We can say that it's all the Republicans doing...but it's not.

At some point there must be a revolt by the people. But it probably won't come anytime soon.

The situation we're in reminds me of a science fiction movie where the entire population is hoodwinked into thinking that they should be grateful for the scraps that the corporations give them. They should be grateful that the corporation's have allowed them to have a job, even if the pay can barely put food on the table. They should be grateful that they are fortunate enough to be able to see a doctor when they're ill...but they should have saved their pennies to be able to pay for that Dr. visit. They shouldn't mind that the corporations are poisoning their water, air, and food. Don't mind that they wipe out the planets natural resources and wildlife to make themselves richer. They shouldn't lament the fact that their kids can't expect to have a better life - education is only for the rich..the rest of us should just shut up and do what we're told...and be grateful!!

[Jeffersons Ghost]

10. that about sums it up

[Subdivisions]

9. Because Americans, for the most part, are big-talking, lily-livered cowards.