Why don't most Americans care about our country?

The left wing philosophy of the past 3 administrations.

The Neo-Conservatives and the Democrats stand for the same thing, government programs to "take care" of the American people.

This false sense of security not only breeds the apathy, but it also causes us to work twice as much to make ends meat because we can't keep up with the taxes that are paying for all these programs. And more work = less time to worry about silly things like politics.

If you look back at the republican platform in 1984... which Reagan ran on, it should seem pretty familiar to RP supporters.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25845

When they're cable gets cut off, because they can't pay they're bills, and they can't get hourly updates on Brittney Spears and Paris Hilton. They will join the rEVOLution out of boredom.

Ron Paul 'The Truth'

I don"t care what any of you fucks say.... The population has been manipulated for the past 66 years!!!! Until some people gets some nuts to make their own corporation and fight the mainstream head on.... then there will be no resolution besides the one we don't want to imagine. I know it's hard to take in but if you can't stand up for yourself and your family then get the fuck out of my way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only tax payers pay taxes. I'm a non tax payer and if you go to www.nontaxpayer.org then you will be as free as I am. Go Ron Paul and research your own shit so you know that we are not crazy. We are "realists"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the root cause is that the average American is a delusional brain-washed functional semi-literate serf. Owing all of the pegioratives to his or her`s behaviour .
One. the average American possesses one thousandth of the prowess needed to understand his or her own language.
Two. likewise the average American has not the need to ever read literary works that rise above the ranks of Hustler.
Three . the average still believes that wwfw is real .
Four . the average American is essentially lazy and gives up the right to self -govern to some slick _(&^*^&*)% who will promise a chicken in every pot .
Five >the average American has an IQ below 70
Six . the average American cannot tell anyone when asked the geographical location of any other nation in the world and barely that of the state they litter with their own presence.

I could go on but what would it serve ? The average american cannot be awakened to awareness neither by educated means or insult. .
The average American is a walking disaster ,edelusional about MOM COUNTRY AND APPLE PIE _)*&&&%
Have offended everybody ? Good ! because I served my GD time in defense of the average _)*TY((%^&^%$% American stationed at a PERSHING MISSILE SITE nose to nose the FNG Russians 33 years ago . SO if anybody reading this wants to quote me patriotism show me the papers , I`ll show you mine including field citations and promotions . As for my assessment
of my fellow Americans look around you , ask 1 out of 10 to explain the concept of FIAT MONEY , likely they will quote the ITALIAN CAR instead. (BY the way FIAT the car maker was smart enough to syphon 10 billion from GM to restructure itself on a promise of partnership
with GM then once on its feet it dropped GM like the dumb rock they are.) Tell me all about it.
FLAG ME ? Go ahead and prove all i have written to be wrong . The average American cares alright but is too stupid to care about for what is right.

I've postulated for years that Americans don't have the time to care anymore. They're too busy working to meet their cost-of-living expenses and their tax burdens that they have no spare time, and that which they do have is spent recovering by vegging out in front of the TV, sleeping, or trying to be a parent.

Heck in my own case I'm out of the house 13 hours a day between work and commuting, I spend 7 hours a night sleeping to stay even, and the other 4 are spent eating, bathing, home renovations, computer work like email and here, playing with the dogs, and playing with and teaching my son. And I only have one job! Others have mutliple jobs to make ends meet, working more hours than I'm out, and they have it worse. There's no time to look at political issues with these people because that time is taken up by everything else.

That and they get discouraged by the perpetual BS that they see happening in government and feel their own voice is not heard, so they tend to give up on it and focus on the things in their own lives they can deal with productively and effectively.

That's probably part, but not all of it...
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Most Americans don't trust themselves to have an opinion. They are so used to being told to listen to "expert" opinion that when it comes time to vote they ask the experts who they should be voting for.

I read a blog of an expat who holds a PhD in PolySci. This person posted a blog entry about politics and what's been happening in the primaries. I was SICK to my stomach to read people posting comments asking this person to tell them who to vote for because she was the "expert". Yes people, this person may have a PhD in PolySci, but that does not mean that she is an "expert" in telling YOU who to vote for or which candidate represents YOUR views.

It's easy to vote based on a trivial issue like abortion than to really sit down and think who will be the best person to lead our government to the place where we want to be.

As long as the beer is flowing and the sports are showing, people don't care. Or as the USA Today ad said, "we've been distracted with ball games and TV shows". Just wait till there's no NFL on TV; then you'll see riots.

Ever heard about 451 degree Fahrenheit - not by Michael Moore, but Ray Bradbury - more than 50 years ago. There is your answer.
Most of Americans are brainwashed by mass media owned by big corporations and serving their masters - American Business and greedy bankers.
But at this stage of American democracy (not a fascism - yet) it still possible to change course if people who see clearly that country is heading in wrong direction try to educate people who are without access to computers and internet
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Slim Jims at RP web site are ($5.00/100) or can be downloaded as PDFs. The PDFs can be changed and printed by you. The color copiers and inkjet printers are plentiful at work, schools, homes and everywhere. If everybody reading this can distribute 100 Slim Jims in supermarkets, leave them in restaurants with tip (no tax on tips), leave them in mail boxes, barbers, by ATMs, malls, motels, we will spread the message off internet to people by bypassing the corrupt media.

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of course, these two statements say essentially the same thing. No one will pay attention to us unless its about them, and I mean SPECIFICALLY about them. Most folks cannot or will not connect the dots of a complex representation of how our world works - they (unfortunately) need it spoon fed to them in an over simplified manner. If you have ever taken a public speaking course, you get told to tailor your message to the audience. Our audience is the least common denominator of the general population - a sixth grade level reader with a short attention span and a desire for instant gratification. And to top it all off, the largest percentage of them respond not to logic, but to emotions! I have been saying this for a long time on this blog - the majority of the population are NOT thinkers, they are feelers - they are moved emotionally and that is what motivates their decision making. We must tailor our message to THIS audience, then we will reap the OBAMA effect. Belive me when I say, it is going to be an uphill battle!

Liberty is not free, It must be earned!

It was great, I can't wait till next week. Oh that Simon is so funny. OOPS Sorry,thought this was about American Idol. Thats the problem with America. Everyone escapes into fantasy.

Hi David. I think you mean well but you need to understand history and in particular, - war, monetary systems and charity. I've read your comments and you mention Spain. Any problems Spain had with money was to do with the cost of war and borrowing or stealing to pay for it, plus concessions and interest. Same goes for all other warmongering enterprise. I'm sure that you will appreciate that alms housing, Red Cross, hospitals, orphanages,etc were initiated by chatitable,-non governmental cooperatives until some were politicised/taken control of. My point is somewhat proven where in this case: I am aware(In U.K.) the most financially well-off charity is the main Animal Charity. Why? Animal welfare is not run by the government. If it was I suspect folk would care less and would probably feel that it is unfair to work to pay for it via taxation. Folk would keep even less of their income and would feel less sympathetic toward animal suffering. They are also less likely to contribute twice by making personal donations in addition to forced donations through tax. Near where I live they are closing hospitals, fire houses, etc, even though they /have/are being paid for. I would bet that if folk could choose where to spare/spend their own cash we would most likely have the best fire house there is,- as an example. Incidentally, fire houses and police used to be non governmental but there was also genuine poverty because the wealth was kept by industrialists, land lords and bankers who originally got wealth directly through war. If you were fortunate enough you could buy your way into an officership and thus share the spoiIs of war. I accept that there have been great medical and engineering break throughs because of war but I hope we can try and move on with some of those original ideas but without war and invasion from now on,- to give the poor and middle classes a chance to make their own way the next time we get another crack at alternative enterprise. If we acknowledge the history portrayed such as in 'Fiat Money, Zeitgeist the movie'(s), then let's acknowledge time for change is now. Thank you.

Lets get down to the nitty gritty. We are getting about 8% of the vote so far. This is amazing considering that in three states alone this equalls 80,000+ votes. This is not going to get us the rupublican nomination however. Why would anyone vote for mcain, romney or any of the other clowns presented to the people by the MSM? Well the short answer is the MSM is resposible for these idiots success. So how do we change this for the future of our country? Simple, we buy a news channel. Can't be done some of you wil say with your contraryian attitudes, Too much money, time, organization, can't convince cable providers to carry blah blah blah.

Remember those 80,000+ votes so far. Probably 1,000,000+ by the time the primaries are over. Yeah we can do this. And to have a real revolution we will have to!! I don't want to sound too arrogant but those votes represent people that are AWAKE. We are a enormous group of intellegent, informed, talented and in some cases very wealthy and business savy PATRIOTS who belive in liberty and our constitution. We are not a majority --YET. To become a majority we need to edjucate the MASSES! Having main stream media outlets is the only way to do this. Some will say but the internet is the new media. I agree to an extent. But to find the truth on the internet you have to be looking for it, Its just not there by flipping thru the channels.

Imagine what change we could bring about! What if Joe Blow is flipping through the channels and he comes accross freedom to facism. Or our news broadcasts about the half truths and fearmongering the other "NEWS" channels are reporting. Joe Blow is going to have to start asking some questions, especially when he knows through observation that this country is headed to hell and a handbasket. Joe Blow is just ignorant, this is why he can vote for Mcain and company and still be able to sleep at night.

I'd say 80% of RP supporters are aware of media manipulation and the globilazation game in general. We are becoming a force to be reckoned with. This is why they ignore and ridicule us on the MSM. Well to fullfill our destiny and truly threaten them we need to compete with them on thier playing field. They have given us the group think playbook, we know how powerful it is. Talking to Joe Blow is a mind numming experiance. You just can't strike up a conversation with someone on the street and get the importance of our message out in a couple of minutes. We need 24/7 EDUCATION and alternative points of view to the globalist. In the marketplace of ideas our will win everytime if given an equall platform.

Imagine being able to invite Hannity, O'reilly limbaugh and all these talking head clowns and experts to our shows and grillling them on the points they convently leave out in thier rants. We would own them in our debates. No more shut ups and cut his mic. People could make better decisions on what they belive. Goup think is powerful and I belive it is 80-90% of people form thier oppions based on other peoples ideas. No wonder our population is buying into all this nosense they don't have any other ideas to contimplate. Its right vs left 24/7 and our constitution and liberty is left out 99.9% of the time. The good news is our ideas are just better and will win the hearts and minds back but we need a more poweful platform than going door to door talking to neibors for a few minutes. Because after you leave guess what happens? They turn on the TV and are sucked right back in to the fearmongering half truths. I know, I can feel it happen to ME sometimes and I am certainly not ignorant to what is happening in the world.

The TV is powerful and we need it to be on our side for once. I belive jefferson, washington and Ron paul himself would agree that it is a major step in creating a real revolution. Ron Paul talks about advacacy groups and private people having conrtol of the media not government solutions. He wants We the people to take control back and we can. The media is subject to the freemarket like anything else there are now laws that say you can't do that, they can't legally block out the truth.

I belive that RP is not spending his campain money because he knows he won't win agianst the GOP machine. I think he knows like it or not he is our adopted leader. As well he should be, he has proven himself to be highly pricipled and honest in the face of corruption and greed. He is the leaer of a huge group of people at least 1,000,000+ and growing everyday. Although not the majority we a powerful force indeed. He and his family has a chance to lead this country back to the light of liberty by binding this tireless group of patriots together and using the palybook of the globalists agianst them. We should have our own CFR, Bilderburger and trilateral commission. We should have our own conglomerate media empire. And through these things and our own grassroots efforts and running for offices etc we will get our country back. But it will have to be through the freemarket and competition. The establishment sure as hell is not going to just give it back.

So I say prepare because liberty is brewing, Ron Paul is a brilliant man and I think he is thinking beyond this election, and we all have too because it will be a serious fight that will take money, time and effort. It has taken the globilist and banking empire 100 years to get as far as they have. I belive because of shear numbers and that we are right we can do it in much less time but we need to embrace bigger ideas than just running a candidate every 4 years, and hoping enough people do thier research on the best candidate. It will NEVER happen that way people are lazy and complacent. They must be hit over the head with the truth over and over again before they will accept it.

So the next logical step is to buy a news channel and fight back. Maybe Lew Rockwell or RP himself could be our chief editor. Then after that is a enormous succes we keep going until we have bought out murdoch and his globilist cronies.

We need to study our enemys tactics, they are obviously working. Then use thier stratigies against them. THIS IS HOW WARS ARE WON. This movement is bigger than one man and in the words of Ron Paul himself "THIS IS NOT THE END THIS IS ONLY THE BEGNNING".

The phrase Bread and Circuses, originally from the Roman poet Juvenal - late 1st century, describes how the Roman people relinquished their political freedom and liberty in exchanged for the abundance of free food and mindless entertainment.
wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

most folks are raising their families, working their butts off making sure ends meet, enjoying what free time they may have at night being entertained. Just trying to get by on life. They are not pouring over stories of trade imbalances, the nuances of the Patriot Act or the future of the dollar.

That's why you have to reach them, sad to say, in sound bites and bumper stickers, which is really hard to do when you want to explain it to them in complex realities. There's no magic formula. In the end, they want to just pick a person they feel is trustworthy to deal with their problems so they can get back to their daily lives.

Taking personal liberty does require alot of effort, really.

I do not want to stereotype Americans. Are we fat, dumb, and lazy or is there more to it than that?

Anyone read Naomi Wolf's "End of America"? I think she sums it up best by bringing up the fact that we Americans expect freedom, we've never had anything else so we just assume everyone is free and that we are entitled to liberty and freedom.

Unlike say Germany or Italy who has had fascism in the last 100 years, THEY know how to recognize it and they know it is important to be active in order to be free.

When one knows nothing else we just assume that we are born free and that we will always be free. The truth is as Dr. Paul puts it, soft Fascism has already taken root in the Federal American System. Sadly most are ignorant to it because all we need to do is "support our troops" and "fight the terrorist".. People don't read enough, or travel outside of the United States in order to get a real grasp on the situation.

Those that do have a grasp are called "paranoid" or "fringe" and most of those (except the outspoken) usually throw there arms in the air and give up because lets face it, if you make waves in this country then you make enemies, and you make trouble for yourself..

Sadly people have forgotten that you have to fight for freedom, because freedom is a privilege, it's tyranny that is the only guarantee as history has proven.. The use of language, media, and the tactics are another strong point as to why people are apathetic and/or blind, we hear about freedom from those who are controlling us and we hear about justice, but really none of us knows what it truly means, it's just government speak. It's like Orwellian "newspeak"... case in point "Patriot Act" got passed with flying colors and its perhaps the most unpatriotic thing ever passed on the American people...

When Fascism comes to America it will not be called Fascism and it will be wrapped in the flag bearing a cross. Truer words have never been spoken...

Regards,
David F
www.myspace.com/asymptote

as to what has happened to the American people can be seen in this True story;

There was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one student who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country, who were attempting to overthrow the government.In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked; "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punchline. The young man said this was no joke. "You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free corn, as it is easier than working for food themselves. When they are used to coming every day,
you put a fence down one side of the place where you put the corn out. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the free corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They soon get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate and sure enough they will come back.
By now, the previously wild pigs, who are now accustomed to the free corn will come through the gate to eat and all you have to do is slam the gate on them and you have the whole herd.
Suddenly the pigs have lost their freedom. They run around franticly
trying to escape, but it is too late. They have lost their freedom. Soon, they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves anyway, so they accept their captivity.
The young man told the professor that is EXACTLY what he sees happening to America. The government keeps pushing us towards communism/socialism and keeps spreading the free corn in the form of subsidies and welfare and tax credits, etc. We are loosing our freedom just a little at a time.

Most Americans, even those who are ostensibly Christians, do not have a proper sense of thanksgiving to God for the manifold blessings that we have received from Him. Instead, we tend to assume that somehow we are more or less entitled to the good life. We simply take for granted that we will always be No. 1: the world owes America a living. The reality is that America literally owes the world everything, because we are in debt up to our ears. The Bible says that the borrower is the slave to the lender. From that I conclude America is selling itself into slavery. America could do this because we came to take prosperity for granted, trusting in our vain wealth and trusting in military might rather than trusting in God.

A lot of reasons.... high percetange of us are medicated on pharmaceuticals that erase anxiety... Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Zyprexa, Seroquel, Buspar, Lunesta, Xanax, Ambien.... kinda long list dontcha think ?

I guess we've been *socialized* into the belief that anything wrong out there is a chemical imbalance... so active gestures like political involvement are defined, framed, explained away as people with chemical imbalances who need newer, better, personality erasing medications...

Combine that with 4-6 hours of the brainless crap on television and the average Joe and Jane Citizen are goners.,..

like, ummm... these quotes from Brave New World... only slightly ahead of its time..

"I don't understand anything," she said with decision, determined to preserve her incomprehension intact. "Nothing. Least of all," she continued in another tone "why you don't take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly. So jolly,"

"When the Warden started booming, she had inconspicuously swallowed half a gramme of soma, with the result that she could now sit, serenely not listening, thinking of nothing at all, but with her large blue eyes fixed on the Warden's face in an expression of rapt attention."

"By his heretical views on sport and soma, by the scandalous unorthodoxy of his sex-life, by his refusal to obey the teachings of Our Ford and behave out of office hours, 'even as a little infant,'" (here the Director made the sign of the T), "he has proved himself an enemy of Society, a subverter, ladies and gentlemen, of all Order and Stability, a conspirator against Civilization itself. For this reason I propose to dismiss him, to dismiss him with ignominy from the post he has held in this Centre..."

I think most Americans do care about our country. However, I also think they don't understand how bad things really are. People sit at home and watch "American Idol" on their 60" HDTV and they think they've got it pretty good. But they bought that TV on credit, just like their nice new car. The "affluent poor" are able to buy nice things, but they never can seem to make ends meet. But that's okay because we're the greatest country in the world, right? It's only when you really open your eyes--as RP supporters have done--that you realize that the American dream is just a mirage. I fear it will take a major economic downturn before people wake up. By then, it might be too late.