Well the reason my outlook is so bleak is because it is the verifiable truth.
There are 350 million people in America. How many ever in their lives have taken any action other than a web post to change the circumstance of the country? I mean attend a rally. Or run for a school board. Or show up at a town hall meeting and demand answers and accountability for the BS in their small town?
How many ever picketed an abortion clinic, denied access to an eco terrorist to a logging site, rode their politicians like the Lone Ranger on Silver during a campaign stop?
How many ever did their own research and took action against their local paper/media outlet to prove one BS storu or another was in fact BS? How many ever did even the most basic of the responsibilities as an American to safeguard their rights and freedoms? Not many out of 350 MILLION people.
They can’t even give up their cable TV when they admit their money goes to fund leftism and the destruction of their country. Football is far to important. Reality shows are too important. Movies are too important. Those are the people that are going to rise up against rioting liberals and the descendants of Stalin and Mao? Thats why I have a negative outlook on our people. they gave me every reason to have one. The facts are what they are Windy. Everything above is true.
there are a fraction of us that wont take it. Most will choose the lesser evil.
... sigh ....
I can't dispute your observations. I've seen all that too, but I've also seen a resurgence in conservative activism and patriotic push-back that is unlike anything I've ever seen in this life. That, too, is real.
We build an imperfect world with broken straws, my friend. All we can do is keep on keeping on. We and those who think like we do, will hold fast to our deepest held convictions while we do what we can to add our shoulders to the wheel.
As conditions in this country worsen, I expect more to be jolted out of their slumber and repose by the pain those conditions will bring. One day (soon?) we'll have lots more company.
I tell ya brother, yer screwed. I'll never stop pouring sunshine on you :-)