...is it because it is easier for the simple-minded and /or overwhelmed to go along with the herd?
Isn't being an American about more than simply being born here?
" If we who have the time and money to take to the streets don't do so,
then the people are going to think that everything is OK."
Peruvian university student protesting Alberto Fujimori's illegal election victory, April 2000
It is surprising to me that in such a militant and belligerent nation, the people are generally not so. But it is more surprising to me that people aren’t militant when it comes to a government so removed from the will of all but the monied few.
When the gov't effectively ignores petition for redress, as the bureacracy and electors ensure, how do the people peacefully revolt against what they are told is their duty to support? How do they peacefully reject their nationalist, pro-business, militarist oligarchy except by general strike?
*thank you Michael P.
Respect.
2007-09-23
11:13:47
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Fraser T
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