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by VLM 4708 days ago
Its older and in some ways a simpler tried and true formula of "Hey, did you know Americans are the pinnacle of psychological reactance?"

Better known as reverse psychology. No nation of people on the planet are better at it than the Americans. Free them from the merger of .gov and religion and they'll demand a re-merger and join whacko cults. Free them economically and they'll become slaves of mortgage banks. Free them in the workforce and most of them will idolize being corporate drones. (nearly) free national parks and they'll watch sitcoms on TV instead. Pay off debts means go shopping so you're poor again. Lose some weight results in go pig out. You get the idea. You can write a billion of these stories about Americans. Self destruction is the national psyche. Its a pretty boring story once you get the pattern, although its funny to watch from the outside if you've checked out of it.

In this particular case its merely a "news" story that freeing people from some drudgework means American drones will of course true to their nature logically bury themselves in more drudgework than ever LOL. At least the dumb ones will, anyway. I could have told you the outcome, and even probably lines from the "news" story, as soon as I heard what the movement proposed to do.