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Originally Posted by jayeff
Hmmm. Take away the specific references and you could be describing the behavior of a great many people.
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The problem is that the individual in question represents the U.S. as a whole. When we travel and people in other countries speak very slowly like we're retarded -- he's the reason.
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How many of those who did vote are, as you said about Bush "pretty much clueless on everything thats going on around"? I suspect this board is a lot more typical of today's society than most people might like to admit, and it is apparent from the threads like those about Lebanon, that hardly anyone has even taken in such information as appears on TV, let alone knows more than that.
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What do you expect, though? It's a "me too" club of people who need the approval of others, in text form, on the Internet of all places. Your point is accurate to the point of painfulness.
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Come to that, how did we ever become so complacent about the gravy train that the whole political system has become?
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I think it was when TV hit the market. The more distracted the cattle, the less likely they are to notice corruption. And even if they DO notice, they won't do anything about it -- they have to watch American Idol, so there's no time to be proactive. Might as well just bitch on a message board. Because THAT'S effective.