Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Will We Have Leaders Like Our Founding Fathers Again? (Not Career Politicians) | Thomas Sowell" video.

  1. I believe in sharing the blame equally but the people have been the problem for quite some time. Maybe we've always been the problem and Divine intervention more than anything else has kept us afloat for the past 235 years. I do know this, the teachers union didn't show up with tanks and machine guns saying let us have our way with your kids or else. We just couldn't be bothered. The unelected fourth branch of government didn't create an out-of-control bureaucracy and tell people the Constitution is just an old document that has outlived its usefulness. We decided to hand things over to the experts. And the people didn't clamor for politics as reality-TV but when they got it they fell in love with it. It allowed us to take part in the ultimate game of shirts and skins and we they leapt at the opportunity. We not only rejected any chance of getting off the ride, we did so vehemently, lashing out at anyone who dared try to stop the show, calling them traitors to the clan, losers of the highest order. When the German's took over Austria in 1938 reporters referred to it as the rape of Austria. One astute newspaperman pointed out that if that is the case Austria seems to like being raped. We seem to prefer lies to truth, problems to solutions, just so long as the games continue. We have always had a thing for shiny objects and with social media, 24/7 news cycles. and elections that last for years there are plenty of shiny objects to go around, or as the author Neil Postman put it in the 1980s, we truly do seem to be amusing ourselves to death. But it's all fun and games until someone loses a way of life, especially in a country with a well-armed populace. We really should spend more time considering such things as what we are actually going to do about trillion dollar spending resolutions passing every few months or what we are actually going to do about these millions of illegal immigrants when they start doing what they have to do to survive and less time laughing at our president having conversations with imaginary friends or carrying on about the salacious revelations of the porn-stars his opponent paid off. Like I say, just something to consider.
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