Is the US allergic to accountability or what?
Just lazy and selfish.
We want civil rights but we don't want to do any work to maintain them.
We want a government that isn't corrupt but aren't willing to hold politicians' toes in the fire on it.
We want laws that make sense but we don't want to do anything more than vote in a state senator every other year. Understanding the law is hard!
We want the lid blown off of news stories about corruption, waste, corporate misbehavior, pollution, etc. but we don't want to maintain a trained, accountable industry of journalists.
We want inexpensive health care but we aren't willing to destroy the useless health-insurance middlemen.
We want peace but war is easier and makes for better TV.
We want to be healthy but cooking delicious meals at home is hard and McDonald's is fast and cheap.
We want to be lean and strong but working out takes time and hardship, so we pop pills that we know won't work.
We want high-paying desk jobs but we don't want to have to go to college for math or a hard science to do it.
We want cheap foreign-made goods but we want
other Americans to buy expensive domestic goods so Americans can have production jobs.
We want privacy but we want to know every
other American's private business.
We want freedom to practice and acceptance of
our religion but not all the other wacko cults out there.
We want to be the one with the fastest car on the road.
We want to live in a huge house on the cheap but let everyone else live in expensive shoebox apartments.
We want nearby natural spaces but we also don't want to have to drive more than 10 minutes to work.
We want eternal youth and beauty in a universe of entropy and inevitable death.
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