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Title: 86% of Americans "tired of having a country".
Post by: Guest on March 17, 2006, 06:22:13 AM
"Among the 86 percent of poll respondents who were in favor of discontinuing the nation, the most frequently cited reasons were a lack of significant results from the current democratic process (36 percent), dissatisfaction with customer service (28 percent), and exhaustion (22 percent)."
Title: 86% of Americans "tired of having a country".
Post by: Art Eatman on March 17, 2006, 06:56:00 AM
Sounds like too many people identify country with government, for one thing.  Then, figure how many expect goodies to flow from government, and they don't realize that society is always a two-way street--or it doesn't work.  There is way too much of, 'Let's you and him...":  Clean up the environment, conserve energy, fight the wars, but not me, not me, not me.  They don't call it the "Me!" generation for no reason.

The national penchant for instant gratification in all things is strongly contributory, IMO.

I think Tom Lehrer's comment from some 50 years back applies:  "Life is like a sewer.  What you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

Art
Title: 86% of Americans "tired of having a country".
Post by: Tallpine on March 17, 2006, 07:09:26 AM
Art, did you notice the source....?  Wink


Seriously though, IMO we are overdue for a Third American Revolution.  Most likely would be a USSR style implosion and independent states or regional confederacies of states.
Title: 86% of Americans "tired of having a country".
Post by: Gewehr98 on March 17, 2006, 07:19:34 AM
Texas would be a nation again.  

And there'd be some type of Somalian warlord system for those who grew weary of the current form of government.  Wink
Title: 86% of Americans "tired of having a country".
Post by: charby on March 17, 2006, 07:28:44 AM
Quote from: Gewehr98
Texas would be a nation again.  

And there'd be some type of Somalian warlord system for those who grew weary of the current form of government.  Wink
I guess this Iowegian would become a Texan then.

I do quite a bit of community involvement activities though the Jaycees and always trying to recruit others to be part of it and it really hard to find people to get involved in the community. Most people answers are I don't have enough time (singles that work a 40 hr week job) or you have "God" in your creed and I can't be part of an organization like that.

You can a see a decline of membership in a lot of groups that give back to the community, people bitch and bitch about problems but very few step up to correct the problem.

Charby
Title: 86% of Americans "tired of having a country".
Post by: Gewehr98 on March 17, 2006, 09:45:16 AM
Yeah, unless Florida did something useful, I'd have to emigrate to the Nation of Texas, too.  Cheesy
Title: 86% of Americans "tired of having a country".
Post by: Balog on March 17, 2006, 10:28:13 AM
I'd think Alaska would go it alone before Texas. Then, they could authorize privateers against the Canadians.....