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Originally Posted by Guest
Your post is a good analogy and one with which I totally agree, but here's the sad part -
To answer your 2 questions highlighted above, although I would agree with your resounding no, there are so many people out there, whether for the reason of blind trust, ignorance, or sheer laziness, that would actually say yes to that. It's almost like a subconscious thing where they just trust the authority figure, or feel they are not intelligent enough to ask questions, or just do things out of laziness, or don't make important matters a priority due to time constraints and would rather complain after the fact. That is the constituency that many of our corrupt leaders feed off of, and unfortunately there seem to be more and more people like that all the time. The dumbing down of America, people working 2 to 3 jobs to make ends meet because of the changes in our economy, etc, all play a part in the game taking place in our country. I'm not sure what it is going to take to wake up the majority in this country!
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Excellent and unfortunately a too accurate assessment.
I think it is the fundamental reason our method of government, by representation has by default deteriorated to our so called representatives in Washington do as they see fit as they get at best minimal direction from those who voted them into office.
Add to the apathy of we the people the powerful presence of lobbyists, special interest and minority groups get much of the attention and focus of our so called representatives.
I had not viewed that a significant percentage of we the people fit the model you describe above. I stand corrected in my thinking. There are those, especially those participating in the government support (welfare, food stamps, forgiving loans, etc, etc) are quite content to have Washington continue forever. Eventually their numbers will dwarf those of us who disagree with the current status and where this form of government is taking our America.
Once those dependent upon Washington becomes the majority there is no hope of ever going back.
So I too keep hoping there is still time to wake up the majority while we still have it. I am concerned that there is anything that will inspire this group to action.