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>so maybe most of the US downtrodden masses, at least those wealthy enough to
>own a car since 1989, never had it so good?
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>ERGO, maybe the revolution is not right around the corner - at least not in
>DC and N.VA?
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>norm
well, the thing about SUVs off course is that as soon as the unwashed start driving them around, the bar as to what is considered a "real" SUV among yuppie scum is raised. the barbie tracker and the ken wrangler are popular around here...
but seriously, one of the arguments we've had here is over the economic conditions under which people get "pissed off". some, follow the historical examples of unrest during economic downtowns and the marxist assertion that people will be more likely to throw off their chains when they have nothing left to lose. others have suggested that it may also be the case the people get angry precisely when things are going great. people say, "if life is so great why am i unhappy?" or why is my employer still trying to niggle out of paying us what we're worth or extract the most from us? or why do i look around and still see pockets of squalor and poverty? it also presents opportunities for people to point out the problems or contradictions--in the way, for example, that Martin Luther King did in Letter from a Birmingham Jail. e.g., if these are the ideals this country upholds, then why are you *really* upholding them?
kelley