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You get people who have power over and individual, or small group of them, and they get screwed over (ala the company that fires you for smoking at home, government wiretapping, discriminating against gays, and so on).
And do people stand up and use their power to stop them? Nope. They just shrug and say 'whaddya gonna do?' United folks have a lot of power, yet unions continue to shrink and people let those with power get away with crap because they fear standing up.
Consumers who think the smoking thing is a sham will still buy Scotts' products, and workers there who think it is bunk won't join together and strike.
I can't help but wonder if we need a '9/11' on personal liberty before many wake up (DU'ers are an exception of course!).
We see it coming. All the warnings are there. Less personal freedom, a hijacking of our rights, and before you know it companies and the government will crash into our constitution and it will burn and collapse. You will exist for the state, not for you.
Your body, your decision. From abortion to eating fast food. Their card to play 'it costs us all more when you don't live the way we say is best' - so we trade freedom for money. Great deal there....
We do what we can, we vote, we expose on boards like this the intent of companies and government, we email, we call, and yet so many just sit drinking from the moonshine jug we call TV and doze off with fox news or sports playing in the background.
I can do more. A lot more. We all can, and they fear us organizing, but they also know there are so many complacent people they have power over that they just don't care.
Until one day they wake up and see that the bullies who took their lunch money now want that and more, and the more you give em, the more they know they can get.
Rant off.
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