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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4563729" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>And we're in no more of a position to change all of that than you are.  Where you make a mistake is assuming we're all in lockstep with everything that goes on.  But there are some laws of economics that are impossible to get around.  We don't want to end up in misery like they are or have been in numerous countries.  People get caught up in ideas of social justice and saving the planet.  They don't realize or refuse to accept they are being manipulated by others with dreams of power and control.  We like the freedom of choice in the United States, the ability to make with effort a life we are happy with, and don't want that taken away.  And there are Americans who get off on power trips and control and would buy in to an authoritarian system that gives them that.</p></blockquote><p></p>