Reply #11: People are magnetized to these issues, myself included... [View All]

[dxstone]

It's hard to resist the temptation to sound off a bit... we've all been living with such real and significant outrages for so long; these diversion threads are a safe way to blow off a little steam...
But it's too bad, cuz there are so many more important issues out there...
Seems like it's a bit easy to get us all distracted, even now...
It makes me think that we are easily distracted and turned around and dispersed because we have no real leadership to look to; there is nothing to keep us cohering together and functioning as a coherent whole... except our shared sense of urgency about the need for change, as well as the humor we all bring to it in these forums...

Everyone knows it all sucks, that our beloved democracy is about to go right over the edge... everyone except the Hairdo Newsmedia and Joe Average Dumb SucklePig Citizen, who is apparently legion...
We need demonstrations that make a difference. We need to stop splitting hairs with each other and unite under a common banner, maybe a brand-new one, and direct our full efforts toward thwarting and stymying our TRUE enemies at every turn.
And we need secularism. It's an important component of what we're trying to preserve here.
We need a freakin' miracle (and a SECULAR miracle, to boot!) We need another FDR, We need JFK and MLK back...
And we need them bullet-proof this time...
These are dark times indeed... everyone's just waiting for the other shoe to drop...
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