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johnnyFive  ·  2661 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: House GOP Votes To Strip Independence From Congressional Ethics Office

I do too. I hope this prompts some more active opposition domestically.

What's interesting though is that in a way our pride in national chaos means we expect things to be kind of jacked up. In a way it's good--I'm glad our society is stable overall, even if it does a poor job of serving a lot of us. But outright unrest or, God forbid, civil war would be so much worse, that a certain degree of apathy is healthy.





user-inactivated  ·  2660 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not "apathy": "acceptance".

johnnyFive  ·  2660 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nah, "acceptance" implies an informed, deliberate decision. That's not really the norm to my experience.

user-inactivated  ·  2655 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You know, maybe you're right. Apathy is lack of decision; not that acceptance always is deliberate - you do, after all, accept your child for what they are without thinking about it - but apathy is definitely more applicable to the situation.