a lot of us have not changed much at all

[MisterP]

38. it's also important to them to delay any reactions: the less their bad moves get out, or the more

chaff they can put out (equating "Cheney did 9-11" and "Reagan did Iran-Contra" with "Obama did Sandy Hook," or trumpeting "if NOAA, FDA, SS, and HUD, then NSA" as "they're both statist&quot , or the more they deny these bad moves, the more they can "manage" the reaction

that way, activism is kept down until the changes have been finalized, and any rollback will be far smaller than otherwise

that's why They chose a president who made--what?--three-quarters of the activists under Bush just go home: had McCain or Romney taken credit for the Max Tax or gotten us into Syria or colluded to crush Occupy, DU would not be full of approved "sit down, shut up, and just keep pulling the lever like we tell you to" posts

AND it's also like big chain stores and the suburbs: you have whole generations not realizing there could be something different; things like farmer's markets, mom-and-pops, sustainability, transit, playing outside, yardening, and walkability may be easily accepted by Gen Y and Z, but have to be *actively and consciously* introduced: cars-only, point-to-point culture is hegemonic by virtue of nothing else being visible within the horizon (literally)