Millions of voters are deeply angered due to the recession , but it is not because of
high unemployment, very few have lost their jobs, it is because they have seen
their property values cut in half, they are the ones that will leave the Democratic
Party. Most of those that are out of work do not vote, they have no impact on
anything except the entertainment industry.

bpawk

Don’t worry, americans have just not sunk low enough yet to protest. Give it a couple of more years for radical repugs to try and form a theocratic successionist government in Texas (or some other podunk state) and for middle of the road dimmos to look into the mirror and realize that our last two democratic presidents were just republicans that liked women and mexicans, tolerated blacks, and pretended to like homosexuals.

Americans are indeed lazy, but our nation has been a shithole on the wane for about 20 years now. But don’t fret, we are armed to the teeth, and stoned on prescription meds and cheap booze. Once we get done watching porn on the net, we will realize that we are flat broke, and then will we be pissed!

The article says that there will be more social unrest of the kind now unfolding across Europe, however the last time Americans protested was during the Vietnam War which is some 40 years ago. Despite all the Wall Street bailouts, high unemployment and huge deficits, I have yet to see any social unrest in America. I don’t really know what people are waiting for - if you took all the words in citizen blogs and newspaper blogs about the mess we are in and instead took all that anger and energy and directed it to protesting, much more would be done to help the poor/middle class. I suspect though that people are afraid to step on Obama’s toes because there’s no one else, having decimated the left (Nader et al) a long time ago. For the poor and middle class, there’s only one card to play - Obama - so I guess we’ll see no social unrest in America.