What Could Possibly Turn Things Around Quickly and Decisively?

[dwayneb]

15. You are hopeful - I'm not

We've been on the "verge of a huge public outcry" since Trump appeared on the scene. Sure we've had some protests on a small scale and a few noisy legislators, but nothing that I can describe as a movement, like we saw in the 60's in response to the Vietnam War.

I have concluded that Americans in general are too mesmerized by their electronic toys and too absorbed with what they are going to binge watch next and where they are going out to eat, to ever spend any of their self-obsessed energies on an "outcry".

The kind of people that truly understood the cost of liberty died with the Greatest Generation, and their Baby Boomer sons and daughters will soon be dead and gone too.

With their passing we will have forgotten in large part what it truly means to be under the boot of an autocrat. It's not the people here on the website we need to be worried about. It's the poorly educated masses out there that really don't understand history and really can't comprehend that it can repeat itself that are leading us to the precipice.