Reply #25: Don't dispair and give it time [View All]

[MadHound]

I don't know if you remember Watergate or not, but virtually every single one of Nixon's illegal actions was greeted by the sound of deafening silence. People are still rolling this around in their head, getting a grip on it, exploring the ramifications. Remember, the vast majority of people in this country aren't as politically savvy, or as politically plugged in. Most spent this weekend in a last minute flurry of Christmas shopping and getting ready for the holidays. Quite a large number probably haven't even heard of what is going on until this morning when listened to the morning news and got ready for work. It takes time for things like this to sink in.

But given time I believe that people will start waking up on this one. It is already starting to be the buzz around my small city, people both outrage, and people wanting to know what is going on and when informed, then they are becoming outraged. The patrons of the coffee shop I patronize are aghast because it is hitting people they know personally, since the owner is from Jordon and phones there quite frequently, and one of the people who works there is an Iraq war vet and contacts Iraqi friends he made on a frequent basis. Thus people have the whole mess personalized, know folks who this effects personally, and they're getting pissed.

It took two years from the Watergate break-in to the resignation of Nixon. Public opinion took at least a year to go from apathetic to outraged. These things take time for people to wrap their head around, give it to them.