{"id":2265,"date":"2007-06-21T08:05:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T14:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2017-05-21T02:18:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T08:18:05","slug":"are-americans-unready-to-boil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/are-americans-unready-to-boil\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Americans Unready to Boil?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>by Joel S. Hirschhorn<\/a>, opednews.<\/p>\n

The frog-in-boiling water model helps us understand political upheavals: how citizens wake up early enough (or too late) to respond to social and economic oppression. Sometimes the greed and arrogance of Ruling Classes makes them careless and social waters heat too quickly. Sensing doom, alert citizen-frogs escape or revolt. Or they stay complacent and boil. The Bush Administration has turned the heat up on us, explaining why nearly 75 percent of Americans believe their country is on the wrong track and 70 percent think the economy is worsening.<\/p>\n

Mexico is the richest Latin American country but has extreme economic inequality, which measures social temperature. Mexicans are jumping out of oppressive waters en masse, right into the U.S., exacerbating our rising inequality. The Chinese have learned to offset oppressive communist forces with materialistic capitalism”\u201clike our affordable materialism keeps Americans distracted and docile (with help from Chinese imports). In colonial America the greedy British motivated our Revolutionary War, but with oppression now coming from within, will Americans wait too long?<\/p>\n

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by Joel S. Hirschhorn, opednews. The frog-in-boiling water model helps us understand political upheavals: how citizens wake up early enough (or too late) to respond to social and economic oppression. Sometimes the greed and arrogance of Ruling Classes makes them careless and social waters heat too quickly. Sensing doom, alert citizen-frogs escape or revolt. 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