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44. Yes...we try ...we've been trying and I have some faint hope that "The People" will succeed.

Thu May 24, 2012, 05:10 PM

May 2012

Those of us in Purple States..(in question going forward) are fighting back as hard as we can ....but given the Sports Fanaticism and the lack of Prosecutions...the minds of most Americans are in the mode of: "Just let me get by and live one day longer to take care of my family and have a break watching whatever takes my mind off the HELL I'm Living through."

We are in a sad state of things these days. It' ain't ever going to be easy, though.

We do what we can do whatever way we can with whatever ability we have as individuals to contribute to the CHANGE ...that will have to come from US...and NOT the TOP DOWN.

We know that know... the rest are just "trying to get by however and by whatever means they have to survive."

We all wished this wouldn't be so....but it is....what it is. Every little act can and will lead eventually to something bigger. There is always that hope. It's been done before through civilization in other times and other places... it needs to be done again. imho.

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