Good question. It unnerves me as well as I spend hours a day disseminating info about the corprat greed & control machinery we're fighting - they're taking over the country and seeking to make those of us not one of their "Kings" into mere slaves until we drop dead.
Like Carlin said: "Nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care."
A lot of it is complacency and apathy. And a lot of it is sheer ignorance too. You know what's outside of DU. Ya got your false equivalency peddlers and your idiots who are too stone stupid to recognize the robber barons yanking their very lives from beneath them. The robber skulks out the front door right in front of them with everything they own or will ever own - their entire home, job, life, future, retirement, kids' education - all of it. The robber says to the dummy being robbed: "eh, it ain't me robbin ya. It's that ol lady down the street there on Social Security. She's the one robbin ya." If dumbass still has a TV (s)he turns it on and it says the same thing. "Big gumint is the problem! Old people are the problem! Poor people are the problem!"
And the dumb-as-a-rock mofo believes it and goes after Grandma. Or, the poor. Or, the unemployed. Anyone BUT the mutha-fuckin robber baron who actually ROBBED him. Propaganda bought and swallowed lock, stock, and barrel.
And they think a goddamned gun is going to solve this. HA!
There is NO shortage of stupid in this country.
And there is NO shortage of too-comfortable-still complacency.
Hell if we could sell stupid and lazy in the U.S. of Arse, we could balance the budget and have a surplus for the next 50 years at least.
And some of it is probably sheer exhaustion. Because we're like some wildlife that are being run down with one of Sarah Palin's helicopters. Chased and chased until we can't run anymore by the greed and control-driven corprats who run "our" government.
Hell the government or the corprats don't even bother making a pretense of a Democratic Republic or representative government anymore. Why should they? They've got it all sewed up - right up to that clown court and beyond the borders.
All while America slept through it for the past 40 or so years.
For many of us, all the same damn miserable battles we ALREADY fought are going to have to be fought AGAIN. Only this time against a bigger and more powerful adversary and its machinery.
For many of us, this will not be fixed in our lifetimes. We're done. Sitting ducks just waiting for our jobs and retirement - what's left of them - to be taken away too. And then...we're dead.
But "Nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care."
Too many people are evidently still too comfortable and/or clueless. It'll change -- but by the time it does -- well, frankly, I think it's already too late.
People -- will be the death of themselves.
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