Well I am “one” of the people and I find it very hard to settle for second rate. I don’t believe the country can survive it. We are at a crossroads and it could go either way. If we believe in what our forefathers gave us, we had better have the will to fight for it. It is our turn and the time is now.
I'm thinking about writing a 'fiction' book about the USA one hundred years from now... one half in which we continue on our present course, one half in which we turn around and get back to the ideals that our country was founded on.
Well, I am afraid that most poeple do not have the will to fight
for “it”. They want someone esle to fight for “it” once in awhile
(see post-9/11 response in Afghanistan). Otherwise, they
want their leased BMWs, plasma screen TVs and easy credit
to convey the trappings of wealth as they attempt to keep up
w/ “the Joneses”.
Whoever invented easy credit was a f*%$*&$ genius. Not only
does it impact the financial industry and resonate throughout the
economy, it is the single greatest mechanism by which to keep
the lower and middle classes “in line”. What better way to give
the lower classes access to the illusion of wealth than by extending
them easy credit? Not only easy but w/ huge leverage factors? You
wouldn’t want to protest either if you could buy that big screen TV
on credit and go home and such down some brewskies. Why would
anybody want to upset this gravy train applecart? It is a pacifying
(or better yet, numbing) phenomenon. It is a boon to keeping
the system moving in the direction you abhor: to fewer freedoms
and more govt intervention and attempts at forced parity among the citizenry.
MV