What happens when we lose faith in government?

I have not been alive for all of U.S. history. I was not alive in the depression. I stand by my comment that this is the worst it has been in my lifetime.

 

I think, for one, "things being as bad as they have ever been" are going to have to start affecting a lot more people.

Frankly -- and I know this isn't going to come out right, but fuck it -- I don't know many people who's lives have actually been affected by what, according to many on this thread, is the worst thing that has ever happened to America.

Our lives have gone on. We've bought houses. We've gone on vacation. We've bought everything we've needed and much of what we've wanted.

Do gas prices suck? Do I wish my 401K didn't lose money every day? Sure. But, as of yet, they haven't really affected our lifestyle too much.

I'd assume there are plenty of people out there like me. And I'm thinking, until more people's lifestyles are threatened, they aren't going to be willing to do anything about the sky falling.

 

What happens? We end up with seriously unqualified candidates for president like Barack Obama and John McCain.

 

:

 

Mitt Romney certainly is much more qualified than the two current rummies. Bill Richardson ... Hell, even Ted Kennedy and Hillary on the left are much more qualified.

On the right, Liddy Dole, Fred Thompson ... Geez, I'd have voted Keyes if he was running before I would have voted McCain.

 

Oh well. We were having a semi-interesting discussion.

 

Here's who we need in charge to set things right. ...

 

Yup, my thoughts on the Obama-as-Messiah crowd.

 

Well, Rush has checked in, but as he charged out of the room yelling, "Who's with me?", the silence was deafening.

We move on.

 

I don't see this country going up in flames of a revolution. I kind of just seeing us disintegrate in a combination of laziness and apathy. I could definitely see the US taken over by some sort of giant insect overlords.


As a country, we are much too lazy to bother fighting back.