In fact, if the people of this country have spoken, the message is we're okay with it all. Torture, warrantless search and seizure, illegal wiretappings, prison without a fair trial - or any trial, war on false pretenses. We, as a citizenry, are apparently not offended.
That's a good summary. I've been rejected over and over, especially in family relations in favor of Fox News spin. I copied DVDs for people, send articles, links, emails, copy/paste, try to discuss issues, raise questions etc etc. And after a few years of not making any headway with people, or feeling like I'm spinning my wheels. I've come to the same conclusion. The group of people who are aware, offended, and making some effort to discuss, change, and make a difference is small. Many people are just hopeless. They feel isolated, alone, and helpless. They are demoralized enough that they won't even make the effort because they "know" it is futile to try. So they're much better off watching MTV and Sci-Fi channel, or something like that.
I think the people in my family are sort of sick and twisted, underneath their shallow fantasy outlook where they still believe the USA and the Bushes are the moral high ground crusaders for justice and all that is good and right. I think somewhere deep down they know it's not the truth and they're actively supporting it, maybe enjoying it. They say torture is wrong and such, but they're kept so busy with work and family business, commuting, and wanting a bigger house, and what happens for 15 seconds on the other side of the world on CNN is so surreal and far away it just goes by without question. Enough of the population is still pacified with enough food, money, and distractions, not to mention made sick by polution, chemicals, bad "food" etc people get to wiped out to do anything but go lay down and put their life on hold.
Right now I've been more of the belief that the world can't be fixed. That the solution is more within. I need to fix myself. Maybe that will bump me to a more positive timeline, or if I improve myself it will spread like ripples through a pond and make my surroundings better. I'm not entirely sure. But I have to question how effective writing/faxing senators is for example. But I do think there is a large part of the population that thinks they are sort of untouchable, who are corrupt and sit back with a sick sort of satisfaction over what they hear and see as some of these attrocities unfold. Sort of like I'm a good upstanding citizen and if you are too then you have nothing to worry about because bad things only happen to bad people, and the government is on our (the good and right conservative god fearing christian's) side, so maybe even add in a few shakes of devine right with apocalypse fever.
