Is there any hope for USA when 18 to 40 year olds don't want to fight or acknowledge they been sold out?

Question

If you had any guts or smarts you would realize Fascist capitalism has total reign over your chances of progression & you are here for the fleecing! I see nothing being done to combat & organize against this! Unions are less of in numbers & more corrupt than ever! What are YOU willing to do about anything?

I know what to do about it, schooling you thoughtless people is difficult!

Answer 1

The key is that people are just comfortable enough, and the prices of action just too steep to make it make sense.

This is not by accident.

In our nation's early history, we had frequent rebellions and revolts. As you cite, in the early 1900s, there were all sorts of strikes and revolts. There were many clashes between labor and management. Between disenfrachised members of the public and the police and military.

We had race riots in L.A. within the past 10 to 20 years.

From these experiences, the leaders of the country learned that you have toss just enough of a bone to prevent these costly disruptions.

Debt is a great vehicle of control in our society today. Notice how college students leave saddled with debt. If you want to take political action, you risk your job. Now, you have your credit rating and the threat of bankruptcy looking over you.

Then, there's a certain business culture propogated. Any gaps in the resume are supposedly the kiss of death at job application time. You can't say, "I took six months off to protest social inequality."

You'll never get a job again.

Then, there's the mortgage, the car payment, the furniture payment.

The use of debt is a very nice vehicle of control.

The first step, if you want to start fighting the system, is to eliminate all debt and all dependence on "the Man" for your day to day survival.

Of course, this scenario has been played out recently in fiction -- in the brilliant film "Fight Club".

Fight Club shows one possible manifestation of this fighting spirit. The great irony is that the film suggests that this spirit leads to a form of fascism that is exaclty what it set out to fight.

In the same way, one could look at the punk movement of the early 80s and start to see some elements of counterculture fascism. "Being punk" started to become as oppressive and restrictive as the system it decried.

Elimination of all debt is step one. Independent means of survival is step two.

Then, we can talk about fighting from a position of strength. The way I see it, such a fight is not unreasonable given the state of the country. We have some serious issues right now.

Answer 2

Hey man,
i don't know if this has anything to do with your question but anyways, I am part on a youth group called "Eye Openers" look us up on myspace.com/eyeopeners . See if you change you mind. the thing is people don't want to hear what the youth are saying. they think all we do is hang around doing bad stuff . We gotta round up all the youth because we are the future!!!!!!!


anyways i'm 17

Answer 3

Unions are ineffective and their voting power is only at 3-6%, that is nothing. So the right to say NO has been removed from the arena.

Answer 4

Yep. The ivy league bonesmen of today, are being groomed in the subtle art of stealing off the less fortunate as we speak.

Answer 5

they just want to be left alone to munch on their granola and play on the internet...maybe if these "enlightened" people would do something for their country, serving in a lot of different ways instead of sitting there complaining, they would have a stake in our country's, and yes..worlds..future....complaining never got anyone anything...except a bad attitude...complaining

Answer 6

I assume you are writing this from a foxhole somewhere or the battlefields of Iraq......

If not, shut up or enlist.

Answer 7

What are YOU going to do about it? Asking is the easy part.

Answer 8

Yeah Revolution man...good luck with that