People have been saying that same shit my entire life - since the 60s. Every generation comes along thinking they have it all worked out, only to grow old and watch the next generation treat them like they are idiots. You are a cynic. You are acting spoiled. You are acting like a foolish young man eager to go to war, with absolutely no idea what he's in for if he goes. 'Throwing off the yoke' with violence will guarantee death and destruction with absolutely no guarantee of recovery. You friends and family will suffer and die. Your standard of living will go down, and likely never recover. You'll have to live under authoritarian rule you couldn't even imagine - perhaps for the rest of your life. We still have the strongest GDP in the world, along with its moral responsibility. If we have a civil war, we won't be able to help the world when the inevitable dictator starts gassing and commuting genocides. There are other ways to fix America. You are close to the truth when you say that the rich are the enemy. The truth is that economic disparity is corrosive to democracy, and it needs to be fixed.
I'm not a cynic, I'm a realist.
The first step in fixing our problems is an honest admission and assessment of them- a process we as a nation have not really yet even begun.
The 1960s were full of endless wars too, from the Middle East to Vietnam. At home, the Civil Rights Movement was anything but nonviolent, thanks to the white supremacists. Were these the hallmarks of 'The Greatest Nation On Earth'?!
I've seen war at a young age, and you have my intentions exactly backwards; I'm agitating to PREVENT more endless wars for profit, not start them.
I don't advocate violence against the plutocrats unless they leave We the People no other choice- or worse, use violence against us. It's happened before, in this country, many times.
I'd much rather use the machinery of Democracy, but that's been badly subverted and twisted to service the end of the rich rather than the rest of us. Yet struggle we must, if we are to build a more perfect nation for the enjoyment of our progeny.
Have a good look around, Ace- our standard of living has been falling relative to our country's productivity since the 1970s, and has only accelerated more recently. Maybe you live a sheltered life but where I'm at, I regularly talk to people who work full time jobs, yet still need food stamps and other government assistance to make ends meet. Don't tell me they don't deserve better or that our nation can't provide it.
We are about to lose that title of 'World's biggest GDP' to China- and if I were you, I wouldn't try to defend America's morality in the world with a straight face. We had that responsibility and we shamelessly shirked it, preferring instead to pursue endless wars of conquest and corporate greed, violating every principle of moral conduct along the way. We've overturned democratically elected governments, attacked countries over fabricated stories of wrongdoing, murdered for profit. AND WE'RE STILL DOING IT, AROUND THE WORLD.
At least we agree about the nature of our enemy. Indeed there has been a class war raging in America for the past half century- and the rich have been winning nearly every skirmish.
It's high time we stopped allowing them to keep gorging at the trough while so many of our citizens literally go hungry and homeless, because of the very actions they perpetrated.
One final thought; our government entities have absolved themselves of personal accountability for the consequences of their actions against our citizens and in fact have conferred upon themselves the ability to violate our Civil Rights with impunity. If that's not the definition of authoritarianism, pray tell us what more it would take?!
