regularity lately? (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog)
For those old enough, stop and examine what we accept today without protest and consider how we would have reacted 20 or 30 years ago to similar actions and speech.
We have more nationally known "media personalities" than we can count who are given several hours each day to call our duly-elected Democratic president and our Democratic Congressional leadership names like "unAmerican", "unpatriotic", "criminal" and "Nazis". They interview and promote the books of people who openly call for the assassination of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and others.
We have the totally pathetic Teabaggers who scream sound-bites and incendiary buzzwords scripted for them by astroturf organizations who make obscene profits by peddling hatred. But, just enough of these wild-eyed screamers and spitters are openly carrying semi-automatic weapons that we dare not dismiss them as harmless.
The SCOTUS has greenlighted the out-in-the-open purchase of the next election by corporations whose quarterly profits exceed the GNP of most nations.
In most states, it is still legal to forcibly bar a dying person's loving life partner from visiting them during their final hours.
We are still spending billions of dollars and sacrificing American lives to continue wars which the sane world agrees were unjustified and are unwinnable.
Beyond the current oil well disaster spewing tankers-full of crude into our Gulf of Mexico lie an estimated 3500 previously drilled wells which the owners have been allowed to abandon after TEMPORARILY plugging them.
BP, the criminal corporation which we KNOW told countless lies in their permit application and safety compliance reports, is now allowed to exercise police powers along our southern coast, excluding nosy citizens or nationally known journalist from beaches or wildlife rescue facilities as they see fit.
A memo recently circulated to congressional democrats appears to verify that Republican front groups and conduits like the US Chamber of Commerce plan to spend over $200 million on this fall's elections. That's more than such groups on BOTH sides spent last time.
So, my questons are: why are we accepting this shitstorm like "good Germans"?
Just how damned hot does the water have to get before we jump out of the pot?
Is there nothing that could piss us off enough to get us off our asses and into the streets? How about in some congressman's face?
Are we going to "nice" ourselves to death?