Actually, sch dist policy dictates those sort of things in our schools. I guess I could start a federal case about the Union dues, but I would eventually find myself unemployed as a teacher. I prefer to stay where I'm at, even if it means they are stealing 2 gran/year in dues.
You're off the deep end about boiling frogs; not reality for vast majority of Americans. I remember back in 90's. I had friends playing army at night in the woods, their militia games. I laughed at them too.
If it does come down to a complete collapse of our system, we're pretty well set in rural Alaska. I sure wouldn't want to be in any urban area depending on dollars & retirements. In other words, there will be many others worse off than me.
I just don't get too radical about anything anymore. The pendulum swings back and forth, not much changes; been that way for many years. Again, no offense meant either, just difference of opinion. Life has been good.
What is correct is that a vast majority of Americans haven't yet met up with reality.
I understand the conservative view point. You have it in spades. "Just leave me tend to my problems and you tend to yours." 'Cepting that we will be cursed by the posterity we will have enslaved with the money robbed by the current gang of thieves, and robbed of the opportunities we have (for the most part) taken for granted. I tend to be grateful for those who've made my life good, and thus think it my duty to try and persuade others that perhaps we OWE it to them to do the same for those to come. Perhaps you won't let that trouble you as much today as you might in days to come. Let's pray it never comes to that.
You're right about the urbanites too; I'm one of them, and report from the worst of it. E.g., voter fraud has been rampant here for close to 20 years, and the Republican party has been too "conservative" to rock that boat. They positively have hate in their eyes for me when I asked what they were going to do about it. And that was when we had a GOP secretary of state.
So, you see how your aversion to "rocking the boat" is merely a more innocuous version of a much more virulent disease? You are certainly not to blame for those who sit and do nothing in areas of America far from you. But in an Edmond Burke, father of conservatism, sort of warning, it is a caution if not reprimand to all those who lay claim his political view.
I'm not singling you out either Eska. More than anything, the single most common trait of conservatives is "LEAVE ME BE!" That, and there are a whole lot of conservatives who want to protect their principal and will let their "leaders" to worry about principle. There's much humor in that vision. And again, there is Matthew 19:24. "Life has been good" will surely be understood well.