why are most people oblivious to the real threat facing america?

Question

intolerance is a growing plague and fundamentalists of all sorts want to impose their brand of culture on us.
both the presidents of iran and venezuela are baying for our destruction.where are the politicians who tell it like it is ,insread of doing what is expedient just to get re elected.where are the Churchills of today.pres bush may not be popular but his vision is clear!

Answer 1

so what you're saying is that the USA is eating itself from the inside out because the fundamentalists in power are just as intolerant as the powers that be outside the US, and refuse to respect any middle ground?

I actually do agree w/ that. The powers that be, and the 5% of America that thinks it speaks for the other 95% of us in the main refuse to see any other viewpoint that could be viable, or at least allow other nations the option to think for themselves. Also it does not help that Religion is part of the mix. Look at Palestine/Israel, and now Islam/Christianity. The so-called war we are in now is just this generations religious crusade, both sides saying I'm right and you're wrong etc... I however do not conclude that this is a US vs the world war, or that it will entail just the downfall of the US or western society. This is a war that will affect the whole world in a negative way. Albert Einstein was correct when he concluded "I do not know how WW III will be fought, but WW IV will be fought w/ sticks and stones". If things do not change it will escalate to more then a skirmish in the Middle East. No exit strategy even if exit started today will stop what has started.

And to think I do not consider myself a doom and gloom type person..

Answer 2

Wait a minute, what's this about Venezuela? First of all, Chavez is as far from a fundamentalist as they come. He doesn't hope for America's destruction -- he hopes that American foreign policy will stop being controlled by US corporations bent on continuing their economic domination of Latin America.

Chavez is demonized by the US media because he wants to do some good things for the people of his country -- keep gasoline prices down to 12 cents a gallon, improve health & education, etc., in short, to use his country's vast oil reserves for the benefit of the people, not for the oil corporations.

Answer 3

1. That message doesn't sell newspapers and get TV ads.
2. It's not just America - its western civilization that is the target (apparently the British people and I assume Europe are just as oblivious or Tony Blair would not have had to write his well-reasoned article in "Foreign Affairs").
3. The US political system rewards left-of-center centralists (both parties are socialist) - a Churchill would never get elected unless the country was in a real mess - something we have not seen since prior to the Civil War.
4. Americans traditionally do not realize who the enemy is or underestimate them until reality is crammed down our throats; 9/11 just didn't cut it as a throat-jammer.

Answer 4

Re : The intolerance and plague of fundamentalists there is considerable scientific study
http://patternsthatconnect.blogspot.com/2006/03/rightwing-authoritarianism-and.html

How that history played out of RWAs destroying the world
http://www.reallynews.com/video/pon/powerofnightmares.htm

The kind off vision that is so clear
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060703fa_fact1

Some close up view of clear leadership
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzwYVUIEzsk

more views of clarity
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR31.6/rosen.html

A discussion of the threat that is subverting America
http://www.booktv.org/feature/index.asp?segid=7408&schedid=454

More Of Bush's clear vision and the threat to destroy America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aeCc_UYLM8

Answer 5

I am fully aware that our government is no longer for or by. when george washington told us no government should last 200 years for surely it will become curropt we should have

Answer 6

GO TO google

Answer 7

let's go nike them.

Answer 8

www.infowars.com