Posted on 08/27/2024 8:35:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The bread and circuses are too good and too plentiful for too many people to care....
Suicide? Yes. But it’s a suicidal level of insanity on the liberal side, and a suicidal level of cowardice by the conservatives. And both trains are hurtling toward the precipice in a race to see who can get there first.
Democrats are like the best friend who enables all your bad behaviors. Republicans are the parents who says no to everything for your own good. That’s why we’re in the mess. Most want the enabled best friend.
It should be a statement not a question at this point.
America Has Reached a Suicidal Level of Complacency
50 years of communist indoctrination in schools works.
Sometimes it seems that way, but then occassionally we do something right, like elect Reagan or Trump.
Back in May 1982, Merle Haggard released this. That was 42 years ago.
“Are The Good Times Really Over”
I wish a buck was still silver
It was back when the country was strong
Back before Elvis
Before the Vietnam war came along
Before The Beatles and ‘Yesterday’
When a man could still work, still would
The best of the free life behind us now
And are the good times really over for good?
Are we rolling down hill
Like a snowball headed for Hell?
With no kind of chance
For the Flag or the Liberty Bell
Wish a Ford and a Chevy
Could still last ten years, like they should
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?
I wish Coke was still Cola
And a joint was a bad place to be
It was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV
Before microwave ovens
When a girl could still cook and still would
The best of the free life behind us now
Are the good times really over for good?
Are we rolling down hill
Like a snowball headed for Hell?
With no kind of chance
For the Flag or the Liberty Bell
Wish a Ford and a Chevy
Could still last ten years, like they should
Is the best of the free life behind us now?
Are the good times really over for good?
Stop rolling down hill
Like a snowball headed for Hell
Stand up for the Flag
And let’s all ring the Liberty Bell
Let’s make a Ford and a Chevy
Still last ten years like they should
The best of the free life is still yet to come
The good times ain’t over for good
Is America Reaching a Suicidal Level of Complacency?
I do believe we are already there but conditions are not bad enough yet for people to care and change directions. Sooner or later it will happen and I am glad I will no longer be around when it does.
“Still last ten years like they should”
Well actually they usually do these days.
My Mercury Grand Marquis just rolled over 300,000 miles and is 17 years old,
It’s in the shop to replace the transmission. I’m looking to get another 100,000 miles out of it.
And Merle didn’t know about air fryers.
The non voters are widely misunderstood—and this article does not help.
Surveys have shown that the nonvoters break out the same way as the voters as far as left and right, leaning Democrat or leaning Republican.
That is why “running to the middle” is a doomed strategy.
Each party is much better off sticking to their normal positions and working hard to get their supporters to the polls.
And smart phones!
And I bet Merle wouldn’t be so down on Elvis anymore considering the current alternatives
BTTT
Imho: Even though a large majority of the American people are dissatisfied with the direction in which the country is headed, the oligarchs continue to disseminate misinformation in order to stimulate confusion because, in many cases, it creates apathy. I could be wrong but I’m not confused.
I’m afraid we’re already there.
Way past that now.
It isn’t just complacency.
Lawyers make money from trouble.
So I wouldn't be satisfied with a car that lasted just 10 years.
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