What the??? Where Are All the Unhappy People Hiding...and Why?

Earlier today, I got to thinking about the number of folks in this country and why we can't seem to get more of them to wake up or to get involved politically. I realize that there is a certain number of people that will just never get involved because of lack of interest. There is yet another group, who we really don't want involved, I'll not make a definition of those here, but even if those numbers were as high as 60% combined, which we are led to believe by the last election numbers, with a total U.S. population of 305 million, that leaves 40% or 125 million +/- a few of the population to be politically active. We know that "O" received 53% or about 66.25 million popular votes. So we know those are mostly Die Hard Liberals. We will probably never change MOST of their minds.

Here's the thing though. That leaves about 46% or 59 million "fence sitters", (called so because we know that MOST of those didn't vote for Mccain, they voted AGAINST "O"). So why in the heck are there not rallies of epic proportions in the street on a daily basis?

Compare the above numbers to these. In 2007, according to what stats I can find, approximately 1.31 million folks attend a sports event of some kind every week in this country. Well, I guess that isn't really accurate because that just involves NFL and MLB games which covers about 40 weeks, some of which overlap. So really, if you added in motor sports, hockey, and golf the numbers would be far, far higher.

This is what I am getting at...If we just allowed for the 46% or 59 million who voted for McCain to be in the streets, that would be about 1.13 million, PER WEEK, to be in the streets(59 million divided by 52 weeks). Okay, most of us work, right? So with the unemployment rate at 9.5%(governments lying numbers) that is about 29 million people out of work right now. Certainly, many of those voted for "O", but even if we said the full 53% number applies to the unemployed as well, that would leave 13.3 million people to raise hell or at least march defiantly in the streets of America...WEEKLY! Where the Hell are they?

Why, in the world,are we willing to send our young men and women, oversees to foreign countries, to fight for and die for our freedoms, and we won't even get off our lazy, overfed, credit soaked asses, right here in our own back yards, to raise enough Hell to get a spot on the evening news, or in the Sunday papers. I just DO NOT get it!!

Outside Independence Hall when
the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended,
Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin,
"Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded,
"A republic, if you can keep it."
~Benjamin Franklin, 1787~

Please, take the reins , wake up America,WAKE UP NOW OR LOSE YOUR REPUBLIC FOREVER Stand and and Scream at the Top of you Lungs. SET US FREE...LEAVE US ALONE AND WE WILL PROSPER, AMERICA WILL PROSPER. GET OUT OF OUR LIVES, OUR COMMUNITIES, OUR HOMES, AND OUR BEDROOMS. GET OUT NOW.

In God I trust
Have a Great Day and a Better Tomorrow
ADW