crashfrog writes:
What, exactly, do you want us to do?
Stop voting for the guy and his minions.
I mean it's not like we have legitimate elections here anymore. And that huge military that's being waved around to oppress people around the world, or whatever? What makes you think we're not aware that's a weapon that can be turned against us, as well?
But apparently many Americans aren't aware of the danger.
Bush didn't exactly ask the people's permission to go to war, remember? He told us that he was going to, for reasons that he lied about, and then he did.
And yet the majority of the American voters appeared to support him.
The president's popularity is so low they don't even poll it anymore. As if it mattered - the president doesn't listen to polls. He says so all the time, and nobody seems to think that's weird. Elected by the people, but he doesn't think he's under an obligation to consider their will?
That's what everyone said before the 2004 election.
I've seen what happens when the American people get out into the streets. Firehoses, jackboots, pepper spray, and batons. People "disppearing" in the system, like they did during the RNC in 2004.
It's sad for me to suspect that the people who care enough about these things are in the minority.
I'm sorry. Before all the rest of you nations get all up in our grill about "the American sheeple", or whatever, consider very carefully that functional self-governance in this country came to an end in 2000. I simply don't see what responsibility the rest of you expect us to take on these issues. The days when the American government enacted the will of the people were long, long ago.
It's simple. Make sure his ilk won't get the majority vote next time. In the mean time, I guess we'll have to endure seeing more people get humiliated and finantially drained for having foreign accents and embarrassing objects in their possessions.
What I really wanted to point out last time was that most people don't seem to realize the humiliation and financial burden the poor man had to go through. He had to get a lawyer to defend against a charge that never should have been filed in the first place. What's worse, he's an Iraqi.
I shared this story to quite a few people and they all seem to laugh at the situation as if it's the funniest thing they've heard. There's nothing funny about it. For a few weeks, this man's rights were stripped away. His financial resources were drained. His reputation among his friends and family was shattered. And that's not mentioning the psychological pain he had to suffer when he realized that he could have gone to prison for 3 freakin' years for possessing a penis pump and having a foreign accent.
And to give you an idea of how naive Americans are these days in regard to the political situation, even after I pointed out the above assessment of the poor man's situation, most people still laughed and said "oh, well..."
I seriously honestly don't have much faith in the American public. This is one of the reasons why I have been questioning the efficiency and effectiveness of the democratic process.
Edited by gasby, : No reason given.
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