We're not Citizens, we're Consumers

[Stoic]

And this is not a Country, it is a Marketplace and a "global" marketplace has no borders. So quit bitching about democracy and fair and honest elections. They just mess up the parking lot outside the big box store (where your not allowed to practice politics anyway).

[cyclezealot]

1. you are so right.

There is no constitutional guarantee that we have a right to vote or demand to have our vote to be counted. Need more evidence.

[Clovis Sangrail]

2. ding ding ding ding ding Give the man a cigar!

[Hydra]

3. "Nail, meet Hammer." *Thunk!*

"Democracy" is a form of advertising, like those infomercials that sell things that "will remove ANY stain!"

They tell us how they're going to tear down any border in the world to corporations...and we're surprised when they actually do what they said!

They must think we're morons. Oh, s***! Most of us are!

[omega minimo]

4. speak for yourself

[Warpy]

5. Before WWII, businesses had customers

The language change was jarring and insulting. Customers imply people are making decisions and have the choice of patronizing your business or not. Consumers, on the other hand, are gaggles of mindless eaters who just accept anything they're given.

Customers have to be courted and service offered to them. Consumers will just show up because they're too stupid to do anything else.

Sadly, the admen were right about that. Most people seem to be consumers, always looking for the next thing that will fill an empty space inside them.

They've kept the credit card business deliriously happy for many years. Now the jaws of the final trap are being sprung as credit card companies start raising their rates on everybody, despite payment history, in a mad rush to get as much money out of them as possible.

Welcome to the endgame, consumers.

[blues90]

6. You've got that right

Through mans progress devoted to advertisement we have slowly been dumbed down and turned into info sponges .

They have the capability to make anything look a feel real when in fact it is the biggest joke on mankind ever known .

This has been going on for a long time . look how effective the radio broadcast of The War of The Worlds was . People were in panic mode .

Now with all the high tech trickery anything is possible through sight and sound .

Billions are spent per year to sell people everything from tooth paste to a war . All one has to say is they are number one and the become so .

We are attacked from all sorts of media , whether through print or radio or Tv , we are attacked from all sides and to propell the process we are further convinced and sold by family members , friends , and co-workers who bring the product direct to you and sell you what they have been told to believe .

I would like nothing more than to be able to just walk away from the madness and not have to be reminded it exists .

I am not a convinced consumer , I still have a mind of my own .

[housewolf]

7. Ohhh... this one hooks me big time!

We're CITIZENS first, not consumers!

Grrrrrrrrrrrr

:mad:

[eppur_se_muova]

8. "America doesn't have a culture, it has an economy."

One reason Amurka seems like a cultural zero to Yurpeens -- we spend so much of our time and energy just trying to make enough of a living to get by that we haven't had much left over for cultural/community pursuits. In the pre-New-Deal days ("the Good Old Days", according to PNACers) it was even more so than now, and we are rapidly reverting to that, all in line with PNAC/BFEE plans.

Put more social safety nets in place, build a working society of willfully interdependent individuals, and people will be freer to pursue something beyond getting that next paycheck.

[IDemo]

9. And, you're not an employee...you're a resource

That is, until you're outsourced.