Q: WHEN will Americans take to the streets en masse?

A: Probably when life gets so uncomfortable (and undemocratic) for them that they no longer have the alternative luxury of lazing around the computer all day, complaining as loudly as their brave little fingers can type.

THAT'S when.

And not a moment before. Priorities.

the power know that those distractions like football et. al. keep people from questioning their actions too closely.

Right now an owners' lockout is considered almost certain, with at least the first weeks of next season very likely to be missed.

to invade Iraq. We were herded into free speech zones so that our elected leaders wouldn't see us. Some of our more vocal activists were harassed and even arrested. None of the MSM media covered the mass demonstrations across the country and instead covered rallies by the pro-war crowd. Remember the pictures of the more porta potties than demonstrators in their camp. Buts mostly the media covered stories about missing debutantes and coeds 24/7. We were called hippies, communists and unAmerican. We were totally ignored and business went on as usual and now we are in two endless wars.

media calls the shots. (pun intended) Maybe we need to march on US news media headquarters and demand they cover our rallies the same way they cover the TEA BAGGERS. At the same time we are doing that we could demand coverage of our simultaneous march on Washington to demand the Supreme Court recuse themselves from political activity and consider impeachment of Thomas and Scalia. That would be among all of the other grievances WE THE PEOPLE have the right to demand the government address.

People, if we don't demand our rights we will totally lose them forever! I am willing to give up American Ideology, Dancing with Scars and The Biggest Financial Losers in History reality shows!

wrong. Go after the corporate media first and demand that they do fair and balanced coverage of our righteous demands for real democracy for the people of the USA not the corporations. I wonder if their elected puppets might call the military on us? It would be interesting to find out.

What would be the goal of taking to the streets en masse? Overthrow our government? And then what?

Why?

Do you think our Army could take over and do a better job?

The Tea Party is right there with ya....tell you that!

Congress to listen to us and we want certain criminal justices on the Supreme Court impeached. It won't happen until we the people frankly scare them into doing the right thing.

If they did that in enough numbers, the question wouldn't arise.

people who are struggling in large numbers just to get through each day and survive from paycheck to paycheck found some relief and had any time to be concerned or act.

What might also bring the masses in the US out is if, by some stroke of fate, the television satellites all went out and, simultaneously, the supply of psychotropic drugs from Big Pharma where suddenly cut-off. Many people can only cope with an insane world via chemical intervention and copious amounts of entertainment and distraction.

When you peel the mask off, it is rather disgusting and nauseatingly ugly. The country of Dorian Gray.

and have taken away all of our rights except the second amendment. When we exercise our first amendment rights our words are ignored.

As we all know those medicines have no legitimate use.

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How long do you think it took people in the United States to respond on a massive scale to their plight when the Great Depression hit?

Almost five years, five long years!

And in 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933 and well into 1934 some out of touch liberals claimed working people failed to organize because of their body weight, addiction to movies and radio and physical laziness! Sound familiar?

And when working people did finally organize on a massive scale the same alleged "liberals" attacked them for being way too militant and aggressive!

only in a relative sense. Technology has changed the specifics. This proves there is evolution within society.

The naysayers will continue to be used by there corporate owners. As a free citizen I refused to be owned.

Might happen the day after the Rapture doesn't occur that enough marks may wake up and realize they've been had...

Just like they have for the last 2000 years.

Jesus could land in the desert and take 40 days to make it out to civilization...

financial and fascist corporate suppression that keeps 99% of American citizens begging for their rights and equity in life, be it personal or financial. There are wall street and banking officials that should be in prison, not to mention the criminal torturers that
have made torture OK for the USA.

We did. I did in fact. And we were ignored and mocked.

There were major rallies against the war in Iraq, a huge march at the RNC convention in 2004.

And the white men in suits just rode by in their limousines and proceeded on as if there was nothing to worry about.

For those reasons I tend to not be the biggest fan of street protests.

As far as I can tell, the ONLY thing that would
"do it" would be if employers were forbidden from offering health care assistance/company health insurance coverage.

THAT would hit enough "middle-to-uppers" to wake them up, and send them to the streets.

If enough people had to pony up the whole amount , they would see why national health care is the ONLY solution.

and not democrats vs repubs vs teabaggers vs homosexuals vs whatever else is waved in front of us as a distraction from the reality of our being screwn.

It's not US against the government but against the corporations who right now own our government.

...the key to creating unity is recognizing who the real enemy is -- not each other, but the corporate elite who enrich themselves at our expense, sow confusion and discord so that we cannot have effective dialog, and destroy the environment with reckless abandon.

... Mubarak has reigns for 30 years and unemployment is 40%.

The advertised U.S. 9% unemployment rate does not sell with a lot of folks, and 20% is a number I hear batted around. I'm inclined to believe it's a lot closer to 20% than 9%.

I think the suffering here in the U.S. will continue for at least the next two years, and probably for years to come.

Americans tend to be very comfortably, so perhaps that means they won't have to experience the pain Egyptians have had to endure before they wake up.

Employment has nothing to do with torture and corruption.

Still, Americans soft underbelly hopefully means we won't wait until things are as bad as they are in Egypt.

However, I would disagree that the corporatocracy wants or would allow a 100% employment rate. Under 20-30% unemployment, the slaves toil harder.

To get to the nation's Capitol is a 3000 mile trip for many of us.

Closer to home, there often isn't any obvious place to do it.
Many of the places we live have no real center.
Where do you go to protest?

yep

with those I disagree with. We are free people together.:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

the government should be afraid of its people and not the other way around. Just my two cents.

The Egyptians are not just 'in the streets'. Think about it. Asking a question so nonspecific and utterly vague is pointless.
I don't think most Americans laze around all day. Where do you get that impression? People I know work hard. Lazing around all day. Are they also driving a Lexus on welfare? It is just such a right wing framing, this lazy American, good for nothing, stupid, whining, lazing about the house. I do not see that as reality. I see that as right wing thinking.

A protest in one city, like Cairo, within a small country, like Egypt is NOT going to happen here.

The US is too large. Our elections too frequent.

What's do you see happening ... millions of pacifist liberals rioting in major cities across the country??

Or maybe you see the geriatric members of the Tea Party carrying pitch forks across the nation.

It's not going to happen, not in 10 years, not in 100 years.

some famous speakers.................

but as you say, we are already able to say what we want including protest with signs accusing our leaders of being evil, organize to vote them out etc.

the people in egypt and other places can't do that.

i don't know why people can't see the difference. we have elections regularly.