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In reply to the discussion: Bad news for those wanting revolution. [View all]NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)think "There are way too many folks out there who have it reasonably comfortable" is bad news? People who want a revolution at the current time in the US need to line up with the teabaggers and doomsdayers. I really don't understand why you think you are bearing bad news here.
"I knew a woman who was pretty poor and struggled every month to get by. She got a massive tax refund one year being a single mom with two little ones. Thousands of dollars. She could have paid her bills and had a very nice cushion moving forward. Instead she bought a huge flat-screen TV and lots of other stuff that nobody needs because she felt deprived. This was obviously effective marketing at work."
Or she wanted something nice in her life. Maybe the nice tv was enough to get her kids to sit down and watch educational programs. Maybe family movie night. Or are you upset that she was on food stamps. Is that the part that was left hanging on the tip of your tongue.
Most people don't think revolutionary change is needed. Mainly because it is not. Change is needed, just not on the scale that many extremists fell it is.