The new change taken place in this country resembles hyper-apathy. The trickery of election politics puts the population into a somnambulist mentality talking gibberish. They voted, everything will be better... as troop call up increase, the dollar is nosediving on the global market and the ever vigilant prosecutors and local police look and find perceived enemies of the state.
The war(s) continue unabated and, in fact, are escalated into more sovereign countries. St. Patrick Day parades continue to draw drunken revelers of record crowds and antiwar marches of substance, empathy and political importance receive not a line in the local newspaper or spot on the news. I predict the new/old spin soon will be that war is positive force on this American society as it cleans the population of undesirables and helps focus us on a collective patriotic mission, while we are eating at a mission or ignoring the Mission Statement of "faith, hope and charity" many of us still think is relevant to our humanness.
The masses are not empowered in any way, shape or form. Being bossed around their entire lives - teacher, crossing guards, sports coaches in childhood to harried, psychotic middle managers and spouses in their adult years - they look with dear-in-spotlight animation when confronted with a simple moral decision of the rightness or wrongness of immoral, illegal warfare. A Leader is what is needed, someone to make all the decisions, and removal of those that make them think is what follows. Comfort, security and a maintained state peace at all costs, just take my money and acquiescence to do it. Similar to eating beef without ever visiting a slaughterhouse. The philosophy of It's Just The Way It Is prevails.
Needed: original ideas of any stripe raising the dignity of fellow men and women. Start at the earliest opportunity. Pay low, difficult circumstances ahead, people skills a must.
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