As a Nation as whole when was the last time we

[kairos12]

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were asked to make a sacrifice for anything? Even, inconvenienced. Maybe the draft in the 60s. For some. Maybe rationing in WW2. To a not insignificant degree we now are comprised of entitled whiners who believe their inconvenience equals discrimination or tyranny.

Give me Waffle House, or give me death.

Disgrace.

[csziggy]

1. Remember when we forced ourselves to go shopping after 9/11?

After all, the president asked us to do it!

My family's response was to stop exchanging gifts and to shop LESS. Not a sacrifice at all...

[kairos12]

2. It's terrible to think he knew the psychology of the whiners.

Don't interfere with convenience. He got a second term.

Disgusting as it was.

[Karadeniz]

3. We have lots of people who can't think straight.

[brush]

4. The '70s gas rationing.

[LeftInTX]

9. In that case the price was too high (1979), lines were too long (1973) or people just didn't comply

[brush]

10. People did in CA. where I was...odd, even #s

[plimsoll]

15. 70's energy crisis, sacrifice LOL,

We couldn't even wear sweaters, that was tyranny.

[Sneederbunk]

5. I have sacrificed my sanity since the 2016 Election.

[paleotn]

6. A long, long time....

The mid 20th century draft might qualify, but as many a Rethuglican can testify, evading it wasn't hard if you had a bit of money and / or connections. So in my mind, it doesn't count. WW2 rationing and millions of men and women in uniform. Although, those generations were better set to handle such things having lived through the Great Depression. So really, it's been 3 maybe 4 generations since Americans have had to collectively buck up and kick in for anything. And this is what we get. Spoiled whiners.

[Hortensis]

7. Yes. The loudest noise is complaining and fake outrage,

but the greatest amount of the complaining's really whining.

My favorites are those on both sides who passionately declare the people should take to the streets to take back our rights, but who perennially complain they have nothing to vote for. They always insist our politicians do nothing, proof positive that they've never bothered to know, just soaked up what hostile propagandists feed lazy discontent with.

Above all, as you say, on both left and right those who are the noisiest have no understanding, much less reverence, for what they have and what they have to lose.

[silverweb]

8. I was talking with a neighbor about this today.

We have gone from a nation founded on the concept of liberty (freedom with acknowledged societal responsibilities), to a demand for absolute freedom (license to do anything they want without regard for laws, regulations, or the rights of others).

We have gone from a national concept of shared responsibility and sacrifice, when necessary to protect civil society, to the completely anti-community and anti-social notion that "rugged individualism" alone is worthy and any inconvenience is tyranny/persecution.

Our historically Anglo-Saxon culture has been turning toward the dark side for some time now. I see Lord of the Rings as an allegory for what we've been going through -- and we're fast running out of time to save ourselves, our planet, and all that is good.

[unblock]

11. carter asked people to turn consume less energy and to wear a sweater

republicans laughed and used more.

sometimes i think republican have gotten worse over the years; then i remember they've been *ssholes for a long, long time.

[stillcool]

12. kind of hard to 'sacrifice'

what you don't have, or what isn't yours to give.

[Blue_true]

13. Jimmy Carter asked so that we could get away from oil price shocks and the damage

they caused.

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. we are pretty damn disgusting.