The Failure of Citizenship

[Pharaoh]

The Failure of Citizenship

By Charles Sullivan

We allow the most atrocious lies uttered by political and moral prostitutes to go unchallenged. These lies are endlessly recycled in the commercial media until they become ingrained in the public conscience as truth. Worse than burying our heads in the sand, we bury them up our collective ass. How do you like the view?
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The Bush State of the Union address the other evening offered the same mediocrity we have come to expect from this illegitimate regime. It was nothing less than fascism incarnate and it was palpably evil. Consider it a heaping helping of dung soup served on

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[MadisonProgressive]

1. The bastards!

[stellanoir]

2. How many are still capable of critical thinking

I often wonder. . .?

[serryjw]

3. 10% of the 50%

n/t

[StClone]

4. Dangerous idiots.

That's what I call them (they called us useful idiots).

[OneBlueSky]

5. recommended . . . this sums it up rather profoundly . . .

"We are witnessing an all pervasive mediocrity in government that has come as a result of a spectacular failure of citizenship. We are a people that value ease and convenience over self education, sacrifice and truth. We do not demand evidence in support of our views. We believe what we are told; and we do what we are told by authority. We do not like to make trouble. Asking questions requires self examining critical thinking, a skill that is rapidly disappearing from our culture of fluff and ease. We want the kind of life where the decisions are made for us—a life that does not place demands upon us. We want to be entertained, not informed by burdensome truths that may assault our conscience and cause psychological injury. That is dangerous knowledge because it would dispel the myths about what America really is. It would force us to think differently about who we are as a people. We would see us as the rest of the world sees us."

[MadisonProgressive]

6. K&R