How many Elephants are in the Room exactly?

[mopaul]

An 'elephant in the room' is a metaphor for ignoring something glaringly obvious.

What elephants are we currently either ignoring, or deliberately refusing to talk about as Americans?

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Global Population, Peak oil, Petrodollar hegemony

Rise of US theocracy
Media consolidation/death of journalism
BBV
Bush admins lies lies & more lies
Torture
Plame
Cheneys energy task force
NORAD standdown and other anomalies leading up to 9/11
Sibel Edmunds
PNAC/Neocon's ascendency
etc.

[htuttle]

2. Too crowded in here to count

All I can see are trunks and tails.

[yardwork]

3. and elephant dung. Lots and lots of elephant dung stinking up the place

[mopaul]

5. dung is our nation's number one domestic export

and odor.

[mopaul]

4. I think I see the burning towers over there by the 12th elephant

oh, and harken energy and enron and ken mehlman.

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[BlueEyedSon]

7. The Govt/corp/media complex, money in politics. nt

[mopaul]

8. rightwing media takeover, bush's boyfriend, laura's dead boyfriend

and maybe president cheney's gay daughter.

[BlueEyedSon]

10. Cheneys gay daughter is nobody's busuness

and does not direcly affect policy (except maybe positively)

[AndyTiedye]

9. The Floor Is Collapsing Under Their Weight

[annabanana]

11. and "the most important elephant"......

Is the one stepping on your foot. Only by organizing can we clear the room and start shoveling this shit out.

[PaDem]

12. Israel/Palestine

an "evenhanded" approach.

[mopaul]

13. ooooh, you oughten't to have mentioned that

bold.

[Solomon]

14. It's always the same big mama elephant:

white supremacy. No one will dare mention it. But now the room is full of little baby elephants all spawned from the big one.

[smbolisnch]

15. We aren't as DUers, but "mainstream" America is collectively ignoring

the draft. Anytime you bring it up, you are just being "too radical" now. :eyes: