Reply #22: You can't mark it up to laziness [View All]

at least not completely. People have had 38 years of one conservative government after another from both parties and they've realized that no matter who gets into office, their pay will decline in purchasing power, the cost of their benefits (if they have any) will continue to be pushed onto their own shoulders, and that they'll continue to be completely powerless, with no government regulatory body particularly interested in the welfare of the people if it's going to cost the corporate "persons" anything.

It's more alienation than laziness. They've heard all the platitudes and they've seen them all betrayed again and again.

Plus, people here have absolutely nothing left to defend and nothing to believe in except what they heard in Sunday school as children.