When are we ever, as a people, going to start to _try_ to make this country less miserable
and a happier place to live?
We slave away, with little to no vacation, we pay the equivalent of the cost of a very expensive new car for every kids' education (or the cost of a house, depending on where they go), our economic lives are ruined if we get sick, our rich commit crimes with no consequence, and our corporations write the rules that govern our daily existence.
Meanwhile, in France, Germany, Scandinavia, and many other places, people are much more free to pursue their happiness, raise their families, have excellent educations, and simply _exist_ without having to go begging to their corporate overlords at every turn.
The slavery mindset that is this country's original sin has never left our bloodstream, from the desire for cheap/free/forced labor that fires every employer's imagination, to the servile mentality of our workers.
Cmon, let's stand up on our hind legs and demand better. The humans and the pigs are getting harder and harder to tell apart.
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Bet you can afford the rent in NYC too.
Look at you! Aren't you just the most!
An excellent movie that I recommend everyone go see. 
on edit: Toward the end of the movie he was talking to three women from Iceland. The one woman said, "I would never move to American. You don't care for each other." She nailed it. We don't. We take pleasure in seeing our neighbors suffer. When we find out that union employees make more money, we don't say, "Hey I want that too," we say, "Hey, someone should do something about that!"
I loved when MM was talking to the Italian couple & the woman says she would love to move to America. Then MM says, "Do you know how many vacation hours companies are legally required to give their American employees?" She shook her head. "Zero," he said. They literally did not believe him at first.
See the movie people!
find the time or have it in themselves to educate themselves.
We're voting for another Thirdway Corporatist for the Third time expecting different results.
Gigantic clue about our US citizens education and logic abilities.
I don't know what else to say.
The field I work in requires continual education because technology continues to evolve. I resigned to myself a long time ago that education carries on and never stops until you die. So learning about stuff is basically all I do everyday. It's the only way I can make a livable wage and support my family. Unfortunately I have to freelance as my job was offshored when Bill was president around the same time NAFTA was signed. The infernal frustration I have is now I'm supposed to vote for Hillary, a contributor to the TPP because it's the only way?
Yea, I don't deal with BS either. One can't pull that shit working with math programmers for 15+ years so logic has been burned into me and I can't help it anymore. 
PS. I had the chance to talk with some foreign exchange students and they say pretty much they don't come here for K-12 but for the colleges, you know, the kind people in America can barely afford.
Nothing seems to be changing and things are slowly getting worse and worse.
Chin up and fight on Sunlei.
Enough miserable people time, now it's on to persistently, nicely-nag Mrs. Clinton to make Sanders her VP.
Now that's a winning, creating change-for-the-better attitude..
A Corporate, Wall Street friendly Democrat or Republican. See, they CAN have it both ways.
Ugh..
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Which means never....
Not until that phrase goes away. Selfishness is what drives conservatives and the rich.A revolution where we stuff tea partiers into weighted wooden crates and dump them into Boston harbor!
Thom got the Animal Farm reference
Well stated.
It is almost completely dominated by Republican rule. They get them to the polls to vote by using their hate, fear, ignorance and years of being uneducated. I have to cry for my country when I see what has happened in my 71 years here.
