Reply #100: Thanks, Zix. I imagine a lot of people in other nations are head-scratching and going 'WTF?' now...

[TygrBright]

Because unless you have paid attention to how we got here, where are doesn't make sense in terms of the America we love to imagine, the America our corporate media polishes and holds up on a stick, the America we were last time you were paying attention.

It's been done very quietly, over the course of more than three decades.

First they made us ignorant.

Then they made us scared.

And ignorant, scared people will do irrational things.

Like, going to town hall meetings and yelping about "socialism" because our Congress is finally, oh-so-reluctantly, being prodded and shoved into doing something that might benefit ordinary people.

No, I don't feel patronized. I feel CONNECTED. To someone who has some of the same notions about civilization that I have, and who wishes me well in this mess. Thank you.

appreciatively,
Bright