>In actuality, we have this huge population of people who just don't give
>a rat's something we can't talk about on the radio. There are a lot of
>Christians, mostly of one Protestant denomination or another, and there
>are also a lot of atheists too, but they all just don't care, they don't
>vote, they sit in front of their TV's and feel the world is just fine,
>or are angry that the damn indians get to fish where they can't (sorry,
>that one came up in class, and we have some outspoken bigots in there..
>grrr).
Not all US people are bigoted small-minded idiots who think everything
should go their way, but those people make the news more often (and thus get
more attention) than those of us just living our lives and trying to keep
the government/ church/ special interest groups off our backs and out of our
lives. I see two (related?) parts of this - first that people don't take
responsibility for their own actions (i.e. the burns caused by McD's coffee
spilled in lap while driving was McD's fault for making the coffee so hot,
always suing people for your own stupidity) and second that the government
keeps passing laws to protect people from their own stupidity. This is a
HUGE pet peeve of mine, I don't want Big Brother to take away my herbal
remedies just because some yahoo didn't read the directions and died. Yes,
I can see some cases where consumer protection might be needed, but not to
the extent it's going these days. I keep looking for somewhere I'd like to
live that doesn't have this problem... I am smart, I take care of myself,
and I read directions and anything else I can get my hands on so I
understand my risks. And yes, I do fight the battles when I need to. I'm
TIRED! And I'm very afraid that there are more of them than there are of
us.
-cthulhuette
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