I Wish We Didn't Have to Agree...

[kinnerc]

One final comment [about 4 July's Higgs-like boson announcement]. It did not escape my attention that the mostly European LHC team made this announcement on July 4th. If the U.S. Congress had continued funding the Superconducting Supercollider in the 1990s, yesterday’s discovery would have been made a decade ago, and most of the glory would have

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[acappellasinger]

First people have to want to reverse the slide. And by and large, people here don't want to do that. They don't think that there's anything wrong, aside from maybe the fact that we have that foreigner in the Oval Office, or that we force kids to say the word God in the Pledge of Allegiance (or, for that matter, that we force them to say the Pledge at all). And those are problems The Government will deal with. The people are not going to get up in arms about anything. Unless you try to take away their daily dose of Snooki. Then all bets are off...

[bloodsong1]

Our military is too damn big for we, the people to get up in arms about ANYTHING. Who wants the National Guard called on them for violent protests?

Then again, maybe that's exactly what we need. Send the troops in against civilians and see how quickly X politician's approval numbers plummet. Or would that fall under "domestic terrorism" and get the FBI out in force?

Wolf agreed with Jefferson in that revolution was necessary every few generations to keep government by the people and for the people. The USA hasn't had a revolution since the 1960s. We're about two decades behind and, frankly, with Homeland Security being what it is, any revolutionaries who get loud enough to be heard will be swept away pretty damned quickly.

[acappellasinger]

Just to clarify, I wasn't talking about literally taking up arms. I meant getting agitated enough about real issues (rather than entertainment or the low-level quasi-political stuff that we're fed to distract us) to do something about the slide in a productive way. That said, it's not like I'm getting out there and doing anything other than trying to stay educated beyond what "they" want us to see and think about, and every now and then putting it into a song.

[bloodsong1]

It's all good. I agree that peaceful protests are the better way to go. It's too bad the Percentage folks didn't have a clear agenda or even a thrown together plan. They had the seed, but no gardener.