RE: "Love It Or Leave It!"
The problem is I'm not a zombie. I'm pro society, pro government. This doesn't mean I don't think our government cannot be improved, but it does mean I'd like to improve the system from the inside, rather than burn it down and start from scratch. Look at the middle east. Its midevil over their. In Afganistan, for example, local warlords hold power through the control of local malitia's, rather than the state having a monopoly of violence, violence over their has become free market. While some of the reason this happened is due to American foreign policy, most of the reason is that the entire local population let their society become a shitpile. If a country sucks or is great,that's because of the people living their. If a neighborhood is violent, the people in that neighborhood are mostly responsible for that violence. The people of Sweeden are responsible for sweedens success, as the people of NorthKorea are responsible for living under a supreme leader. They could launch a rebellion at any time, they CHOOSE not to.
I don't know that I called you a zombie. First of all it was meant as a figure of speech, not an insult. But specifically, I was referring to those that use the reference referred to by Larken.
As for your comment that people could rebel at any time but they choose not to, there are many reasons for that, not something that could be explained in a brief comment, but in a nutshell, it's due to Stockholm Syndrome and Cognitive Dissonance.
Who has been funding, arming and protecting the Taliban since 1983? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
We funded the Talaban because at the time we were in the cold war with the Russians. In my initial reply I said we make mistakes, etc. Afganistan was a pon on our chessboard in our game with the Russians. They invaded so we funded the resistance.