America. Is. Too. OBEDIENT. [View all]

[Zalatix]

Whatever happened to the big sit-in protests of the 1960s? Why aren't America's 46 million unemployed joining Occupy Wall Street? Why aren't more liberal Democrats out protesting with Occupy Wall Street, after all, even if they protest Democrats and Republicans alike, can anyone explain to me where Occupy Wall Street's gripes differ from ours?

I've been to a few Occupy protests and I know for a fact that our numbers should have been FAR larger considering how many people in America hold the same views as OWS. Much less those who have lost their jobs and have gone homeless.

Now I know people are going to demand that I cite some examples of America's servile complacency and I did that pre-emptively in another thread, which led to a little... trouble. So I'll just stay general about it.. America is too obedient.

Nobody fights back anymore. God knows how many folks out there are starving to death quietly, or dying of exposure in this wacky weather, or dying of health problems they know they have. Nobody's rising up. Occupy Wall Street is way smaller than it should be. The unemployed don't even protest. Those who are better off, sure as hell don't do anything, but one can expect that they don't think they'll join the ranks of the jobless or homeless.

We don't even see sit-ins or mass protests anymore. Not even from the millions of people who are the most adversely affected. What happened to our spirit? Are we destined to have a country where the poor are Social Darwinized out of existence?