said by Cabal:How many gross violations of the Constitution would it take for people to rise up against an unjust government?
It probably won't happen during either of our lifetimes.
Today, we Americans are too apathetic, or respond with a never-ending list of excuses as reasons for why we "can't" (there are a common 10-20 reasons often given). But even if we could overcome that fact, there's this reality: small dissenting marches/riots (say, under a thousand people) don't matter any more -- we're too physically large a country for such things to make a difference, and the method/approach is often done in such a way where after the event everyone is back-patting and thinking they "did their part" without being able to admit that chances are it will have absolutely zero impact in the grand scheme of things. For example, ask any Aussie or Kiwi about the United States, and eventually they'll say "you're just too [physically] big a country to change", and they're right.
What we cannot come to grasps with is the root cause (in some way or another): money. Capitalist/commercial cynosure, combined with exorbitant self-focus (vs. thinking about "the group" -- an idea/thought that proliferates heavily throughout Asia), will be our demise. Combine these with an
unhealthy fixation on extroverted personality and you have an extremely volatile (read: dangerous) situation. We have no one to blame but ourselves for the proliferation of all these problems: the rest of the world has sat by and watched (and suffered as well, since we have our grubby fingers in way too many international pies).
All said, we could
learn a lot from the French, quite honestly (and note the irony, bordering on karmatic: Americans dumping French wine WRT the Iraq situation...). But true reformation begins in the mind, and begins at home.
