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Originally Posted by pan6467
I agreed with everything till that right there.
I am the eternal optimist, I believe in the PEOPLE (we, none of us are sheeple). We are a nation that has proven time and again when the need arises we stand up.
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Yes, but we are also a nation that has proven time and again that we will sit around and refuse to educate ourselves about the problem until it is a ridiculously large one. The situation we're in right now wasn't hard to predict. I called it LONG before Iraq was invaded. It was obvious to anyone who bothered to look that they had NO justifiable evidence for WMD's, which of course meant they had NO justifiable reason for the war (and you didn't even have to look that hard to see how shaky the WMD fairytale was - just watch Colin Powell's bullshit speech to the UN on the subject to see how flimsy their case was).
And then last year, even though we were chest deep in manure already, the American people (probably) elected the guy again. (I say probably because there ARE some issues revolving around the Diebold voting machines that will probably never be investigated and therefore the '04 election will ALWAYS be questionable) I'm the first one to say Kerry wasn't great, but good grief - Bush was a KNOWN failure, yet he waltzed right back into office. And as I predicted back then, 3 months later people started waking up.
The people always wake up too late, and that frankly frustrates the hell out of me.
So yeah, I'd say "sheeple" is often an apt term.