What's amazing to me is there are enough people willing to ignore allll of this and step right up in order to get on their damn plane to wherethehellever.
This has been part of my frustration as well. People are most intently concerned with their own pursuits -- their job, their house, their family, their upcoming vacation -- and are willing to put up with "whatever" as long as they're still more or less able to continue these pursuits. On the one hand, it's a completely understandable position. But on the other, you just want to throw up your hands and wonder, is there
any sort of principle or ideal that they value more than their 9-5 job or what's on Pay-per-View tonight?
This is an area where the conservative's lack of an "activist gene" is a disadvantage. The Leftists tend to occupy those sheltered little enclaves of the economy -- academia, non-profits, bureaucracy -- where they, at our expense, are more free to pursue ideological goals. They are aware of this, at least subconsciously, and it explains their reaction to what started in Wisconsin with the unions.
Have you seen
Braveheart? Towards the beginning of the film it shows the Scots chafing under the abuses of the English, but even in spite of this mistreatment Wallace proclaims his intent to put up with it all as long as he's able to have a piece of land and a family. People remind me of that.
