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Tony_FLADEM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 10:29 AM Original message |
How much blame do you give to the American People for the way things are in this country? |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
1. It is difficult. |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
2. The timeless questions: Do we blame the victim? I would say as with any con job the victim |
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deutsey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 10:50 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. My frame of reference is the '80s |
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Kahuna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
3. I hear you. It's amazing how short people's memories are. I also |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
4. The biggest block of 'voters' are the non-voters, so yes, |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
5. A half-century of Television, |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 10:45 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Don't you mean that they are so slave labored that they don't have enough time to vote, buy and read |
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deutsey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 10:52 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. It's really not an "either/or" dichotomy |
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Ron Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 10:57 AM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Yes, slave-labored is part of it, but so is addicted and distracted. |
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kgnu_fan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
7. Less educated people......easier to rule... |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
8. There's surely plenty of blame. |
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barbiegeek (844 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
11. 70% of the blame |
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Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
13. Can't blame us. We don't run the government. But we all know who really does. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 11:02 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. We, The People let it happen. |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
14. I DO place, at least, some of the blame .......................... |
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jaksavage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
16. Do you blame a sheep |
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Kablooie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
17. 100% |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
18. I blame human nature. |
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barbiegeek (844 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 11:20 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. ROFLMAO--I have to borrow that line |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-03-10 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
20. It is not the same peoppe making all these demands |
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classysassy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-04-10 12:47 AM Response to Original message |
21. Senior citizens |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-04-10 12:54 AM Response to Original message |
22. ~80% IMO |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-04-10 02:39 AM Response to Original message |
23. The people in the US are poorly educated in many ways - we learn to be obedient workers |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-04-10 02:45 AM Response to Original message |
24. I put most of the blame not on the American People, but on |
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Hekate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-04-10 04:06 AM Response to Original message |
25. Less than I used to, frankly. The mega-corporations have an ungodly amount of power over us |
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Mekki (14 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-04-10 04:24 AM Response to Original message |
26. none |
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Toucano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-04-10 05:00 AM Response to Original message |
27. 90 percent |
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