Reply #159: It is long past time to wake up [View All]

[Ardee]

The ideals of America include lynching blacks from trees, incarcerating the poor because they have no money for attorneys not because they are guilty,robbing the working class of health care, dignity and, often, their pensions.It includes the murder of countless third world citisens either through military intervention or unsafe factories. American ideals include inequitable distribution of wealth and power.

Unles and until a majority of americans are forced to face the fact of this textbook image that you maintain , whether through blindness
or a fear of alienation, there will be more of the same, there will be no cvhange. we hear this stuff repeatedly here at DU and from our elected representatives and I for one am sick of it.The popularity of Goerge W Bush stems from the cowardice of the democratic party and little else. In the absence of an opposition to his agendas and policies the american people are forced to believe him. Even without any balls from our opposition party ( thats an unfunny joke) more and more people are "getting it" every day.Imagine if there had been a concerted effort all along to expose the lies of Bush and company?

It is simple cowardice to assume that the majority of americans will reject the truth, it stems from the fear of loudmouths like Limbaugh, Hannity and O'Reilly, and not from any axiomatic truths about the average american being a war mongering supporter of inequality .