Reply #20: Maybe the saying about the race between education and ignorance [View All]

should be changed to the race between comfort and freedom. Freedom implies responsibility along with the pursuit of happiness, and you are right, we are choosing comfort over freedom.

I think another issue is that there isn't a clear choice to fix it. If this election or this march or this LTTE or this candidate would fix the problem, we would do it. But taking back our government would be monumentally hard work, and this candidate disappoints, this march has a low turnout, this election appears to go further away from our goals... if we could take up our pitchforks and march on THE public square in solidarity, then maybe we could prevail. But this is a big country, a politically fractured country. The media is always able and willing to divide and confuse. If all else fails, they just continue to go blah, blah, blah and everything remains status quo.

I suppose there's not much hope for America, but I think much of the rest of the world truly hungers for that which we have given up. Maybe democracy (real, not Bush's brand) will catch hold in the rest of the world and eventually come back to us. Maybe the world will see our example and not let the corporations take over their media, their government. Maybe some day, they'll help us get our freedom back when Americans are no longer too comfortable to care.