So why aren’t there tanks in the streets?
Notably absent from the list of countries where the economic crunch is rending the social fabric is the good ole US of A, a state with the greatest level of economic inequality in the wealthy world.
Outside of a few scattered and quickly contained protests, the citizens of the U.S. – a country born of revolution, but with an elite that’s been terrified of that legacy since immediately after its founding – have been calm, despite opinion polls showing that Americans are more dissatisfied with the direction in which the country has been headed since they began measuring such things.
Interesting question. Why has our nation become so complacent and stupefied, unable to get off the couch and into the streets? Has our media disinformation organizations and government propaganda forces done their jobs so well that even the most hapless loser thinks that the American dream is still possible for them? Or is it that we haven’t completely lapsed into outright socialism, which at least gives the discontents a central focus- the government- to blame for all woes? In America today the cast of villains are all around, from the completely amoral government, the run amok greed pigs of Wall Street, oinking “free market” while they rob us blind, or the Defense Department, maintaining bases in hundreds of countries, funneling unaccountable sums of money to inept contractors, and the list goes on and on.
Sorta makes it hard to aim, don’t it?
