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Edited on Wed Dec-02-09 01:14 AM by RoyGBiv
And it's still crazy. We haven't even hit bottom yet.
Friedman went crazier than many, but this is not a zero-sum game. The fact that this idiot is the one pointing out the obvious and trying to use it as an personal excuse does not argue against the level of insanity to which most of us succumbed. It just means he continues to be a self-righteous asshole who can't take responsibility for anything he does or says nor genuinely admit to a mistake.
We can blame the media and our politicians all we want, but it doesn't solve anything. Certainly the media played their part in this comedy of collective insanity, and our politicians were by and large just as shitty as they've always been, playing on people's worst fears while silently pocketing the bonus checks their blood lust helped fuel.
But we don't get off so lightly. We sat here, those of us who opposed each and every thing that happened, and we banged on our keyboards, and we shouted and screamed and thought of fancy new nicknames for Republicans and the Democrats we don't like, but we didn't truly do anything but play our own rhetorical games. We pretended that because we disagreed, that this somehow left us as an island of sanity.
I do not remove myself from this equation nor do I point fingers specifically at anyone. This isn't about blame. We're all in this mess. We all created it or by lack of action allowed it to be created, and we continue to pay our taxes like good citizens do, and we go to work if we're lucky enough to be employed, and pay our bills if we can. We buy shit we don't need to impress people we don't like and entertain ourselves with "art" we later declare sucks ass. We run our fingers threadbare, blog our way into hysterics and occasionally get outside in the fresh air for a march or two or possibly even to yell at people in real life and check out their signs. But there we are. That's the game. If anything about it were threatening to the status quo, the powers that insist on its maintenance wouldn't be so obvious.
And I don't know the answer. No one here in my years at DU has even suggested the answer that I recall. It didn't take us 8 years to get here, nor 12 or 50. It took a couple centuries, but here we are, and we're not going to get out of it any time soon, certainly not by pointing fingers while at the same time filling the war chests of those who have the most to gain by our continued, implied acquiescence.
The United States of America: Our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
Edit: typo
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