On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:05:33 -0500, Swingman wrote:
Tried to get on an airplane lately, or take photos of police in action, or
just act like you're going to dance at the Washington monument, or know for
sure whether the food you buy is non adulterated/GMO, or belong to a co-op
that sells raw goat milk to the owners without an up-close and personal
SWAT visit, or get raided because you got shipped some legal hardwood for
guitar fretboards, or wonder why all that military equipment is going to
the local police, or watched your kid at college get pepper sprayed for
sitting on a sidewalk on campus, or been waited on by some ill educated,
surly minimum wage asshole who can barely speak the language, no matter
where they came from, or got .95 cents interest on a $6000 bank balance, or
somehow think you actually own your home, until you forget to pay a
property tax, or don't know you can't even hold your elected
representatives to task for those property tax appraisals, ad ****ing
infinitum??

The reality, Bubba, is you've already lost regardless of who won the last
twenty elections ... just too ****ing stupid to realize it.

Hell Karl, don't beat around the bush, tell people exactly how you
feel about your entire society in general.

With an outlook like that, pretty well the only thing you can hope for
is that you die off before it gets much worse.

The *really* sad part about it is that all of it maybe true. That's
pretty depressing.