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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs a Nation as whole when was the last time we
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were asked to make a sacrifice for anything? Even, inconvenienced. Maybe the draft in the 60s. For some. Maybe rationing in WW2. To a not insignificant degree we now are comprised of entitled whiners who believe their inconvenience equals discrimination or tyranny.
Give me Waffle House, or give me death.
Disgrace.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)After all, the president asked us to do it!
My family's response was to stop exchanging gifts and to shop LESS. Not a sacrifice at all...
kairos12
(12,861 posts)Don't interfere with convenience. He got a second term.
Disgusting as it was.
Karadeniz
(22,516 posts)brush
(53,778 posts)LeftInTX
(25,327 posts)brush
(53,778 posts)plimsoll
(1,669 posts)We couldn't even wear sweaters, that was tyranny.
Sneederbunk
(14,290 posts)paleotn
(17,913 posts)The mid 20th century draft might qualify, but as many a Rethuglican can testify, evading it wasn't hard if you had a bit of money and / or connections. So in my mind, it doesn't count. WW2 rationing and millions of men and women in uniform. Although, those generations were better set to handle such things having lived through the Great Depression. So really, it's been 3 maybe 4 generations since Americans have had to collectively buck up and kick in for anything. And this is what we get. Spoiled whiners.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)but the greatest amount of the complaining's really whining.
My favorites are those on both sides who passionately declare the people should take to the streets to take back our rights, but who perennially complain they have nothing to vote for. They always insist our politicians do nothing, proof positive that they've never bothered to know, just soaked up what hostile propagandists feed lazy discontent with.
Above all, as you say, on both left and right those who are the noisiest have no understanding, much less reverence, for what they have and what they have to lose.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)We have gone from a nation founded on the concept of liberty (freedom with acknowledged societal responsibilities), to a demand for absolute freedom (license to do anything they want without regard for laws, regulations, or the rights of others).
We have gone from a national concept of shared responsibility and sacrifice, when necessary to protect civil society, to the completely anti-community and anti-social notion that "rugged individualism" alone is worthy and any inconvenience is tyranny/persecution.
Our historically Anglo-Saxon culture has been turning toward the dark side for some time now. I see Lord of the Rings as an allegory for what we've been going through -- and we're fast running out of time to save ourselves, our planet, and all that is good.
unblock
(52,227 posts)republicans laughed and used more.
sometimes i think republican have gotten worse over the years; then i remember they've been *ssholes for a long, long time.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)what you don't have, or what isn't yours to give.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)they caused.