If "citizen outrage" correlates to all Thom's paragraphs beginning with "the majority of Americans," what we have here is evidence that the grand idea of America is toast. It took many peons to maintain the lifestyle of barons and princes. Feudalism and similar systems seem to be history's norm. Numbers mostly don't count, historically speaking. Who has the most guns in America?
If "citizen outrage" correlates to all Thom's paragraphs beginning with "the majority of Americans," what we have here is evidence that the grand idea of America is toast. It took many peons to maintain the lifestyle of barons and princes. Feudalism and similar systems seem to be history's norm. Numbers mostly don't count, historically speaking. Who has the most guns in America?
I regard “citizen outrage” as a kind of human “activated complex” in that it is the state that millions of Americans find ourselves in, and it won’t take much to inspire us to get active. I find that there are three things that bode well for the future if we can effectively use our citizens’ outrage. First, there is more citizen outrage now than in any other time (i.e., plenty of supply). Second, being able to focus that outrage on doing good things should be pretty easy with contemporary knowledge and technology. Third, assuming that our government’s purpose is to promote our general welfare and protect us from oligarchs, we already know how to best meet that purpose through role model education and all the goodness that that would generate.
Now we just need our progressive leaders to show 12 million of us how we can use our First Amendment rights to neutralize the oligarchs’ power over our government’s decision-makers.
As always, it all comes down to what is learned. Basically we just need to motivate 3.5% of our fellow Americans to learn that we’ve been flimflammed as well as learn how to neutralize the oligarchs’ power over our government’s decision-makers. Maybe Thom could offer everyone a Christmas discount when one buys all of his Hidden History books. If you read them and don’t understand the oligarchs’ grifting ways and why we need to care, you have learned to be bad at learning.
If "citizen outrage" correlates to all Thom's paragraphs beginning with "the majority of Americans," what we have here is evidence that the grand idea of America is toast. It took many peons to maintain the lifestyle of barons and princes. Feudalism and similar systems seem to be history's norm. Numbers mostly don't count, historically speaking. Who has the most guns in America?
I regard “citizen outrage” as a kind of human “activated complex” in that it is the state that millions of Americans find ourselves in, and it won’t take much to inspire us to get active. I find that there are three things that bode well for the future if we can effectively use our citizens’ outrage. First, there is more citizen outrage now than in any other time (i.e., plenty of supply). Second, being able to focus that outrage on doing good things should be pretty easy with contemporary knowledge and technology. Third, assuming that our government’s purpose is to promote our general welfare and protect us from oligarchs, we already know how to best meet that purpose through role model education and all the goodness that that would generate.
Now we just need our progressive leaders to show 12 million of us how we can use our First Amendment rights to neutralize the oligarchs’ power over our government’s decision-makers.
As always, it all comes down to what is learned. Basically we just need to motivate 3.5% of our fellow Americans to learn that we’ve been flimflammed as well as learn how to neutralize the oligarchs’ power over our government’s decision-makers. Maybe Thom could offer everyone a Christmas discount when one buys all of his Hidden History books. If you read them and don’t understand the oligarchs’ grifting ways and why we need to care, you have learned to be bad at learning.