But why did he climb the tower to his inevitable doom instead of taking on the tanks in the streets? I mean, if he can take on a couple raptors he can deal with the army.
Only thing I can hope is that eventually the rich *will* get too rich, the middle class will disappear, and the poor will finally wake the hell up. Then we'll have another revolution. The bourgeois never last very long without the coushy middle-class as a buffer zone. And, not to be nitpicky, but privacy isn't actually guaranteed under the Constitution. The Supreme Court has ruled in the past that privacy can be inferred in certain areas, but it's not guaranteed (hence a highly conservative court could rule the president's current actions legal, and then there goes civil rights). Don't get me wrong here, I agree with you completely on that stuff and how bleak the future of America is (hence one reason I'd like to move to either Canada or Britain). And as far as capitalism vs. socialism, give me socialism *any* day. I saw an interesting commercial the other day, which could be used as a perfect example of why to institute at *least* socialised healthcare, but was instead used to promote Blue Shield (or some other HMO/PPO/private
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And along with all these other problems, we have a bunk political system. We've been pushed into a two party system where we debate between two parties who aren't even sure what they stand for. So people just give up on the system or "waste" their votes on third parties that have no hope of winning. I could go into a rant about the political system, but I won't. Let's just put it this way: America will continue to screw us in the ass (highly unpleasantly) until people either wake up and revolt OR until America ends up screwing its citizens so much they can't take any more and the country collapses. We should really take a note from countries that have been around since forever (like basically all of Europe and Asia)
yes, i didn't even get to the bullshit of our two party system although since 9-11 its been a one party system because the democrats have stood idly by while conservatives did things that they should have been fighting over and acting up against, both legal and illegal.
And yes, we'll have a revolution eventually if we slide any worse, but that also bothers me just because of the comfort zone of the middle/upper class which i hope to bring kids in at some point. It seems once you have children and settle down, you loose all ability to not be a consumercentric person because every parent wants to give their kid EVERYTHING that they never had etc. So I guess in that way, I'm a little hypocritical. I want the comfort we had for my children, but as you said, revolution will happen if the rich and poor are to far polarized.
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And yes, we'll have a revolution eventually if we slide any worse, but that also bothers me just because of the comfort zone of the middle/upper class which i hope to bring kids in at some point. It seems once you have children and settle down, you loose all ability to not be a consumercentric person because every parent wants to give their kid EVERYTHING that they never had etc. So I guess in that way, I'm a little hypocritical. I want the comfort we had for my children, but as you said, revolution will happen if the rich and poor are to far polarized.
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