Originally posted by Dma110 I'm old enough to remember when "we the people" had rights. We are rapidly losing them.
We are hardly losing them: all we need to do is to join together in a group, a corporation, a large business corporation, who will give us money in exchange for our time, and who will provide us health insurance in exchange for our money, and who will express our opinions for us in the appropriate manner to those elected and unelected officials who serve us in the various levels of government, and who will amplify our beneficial thoughts with advertising and think tanks, and who will attenuate our harmful ideas through political organization and the media. They will spend some of the money we help generate to ensure our elections are fair and balanced and favor those whose opinions are beneficial. They will spend some more of the money to select some of us, to raise us above the rest in a meritocratic manner, and to shower these selected ones with cash and stock, in order to provide the rest of us role models and motivation.
These groups will provide us child care. They will organize our annual United Way campaigns, and other charity. They will enable us to boast of our productivity. They will educate us in those responsibilities that come with our rights, and remind us that should we evade our responsibilities someone else will perform them instead.