Why do people have to lose something to learn?

[bleedingheart]

When DU first started, I stated that I didn't think anything would change in this country until enough people got screwed. I recall to this very day that people thought I was a pessimist, they really felt that people would wake up.

and you know what...I wanted to be wrong..... I really wanted to be wrong.

yet we are now in the second term of * and

1. the War that may never end in Iraq....probably the biggest single mistake of the 21st century so far....
2. healthcare is being stripped or priced way to high for American workers who did have it...
3. bankruptcy reform was designed to screw Americans
4. the average income for Americans is not growing
5. American industry is dying and even the service jobs are going overseas...

so tell me...what will be the straw that breaks the back of the average American? What will finally wake them up?

I never intend to give up the fight but sometimes I just shake my head....