1. We're slowly losing our freedoms.
We're losing freedoms that make things difficult for corporations and businesses. We're gaining a stuff ton of other freedoms that we like to forget about, like desegregation, womens' suffrage, gay rights, etc.
2. About half of the US population is dumb as stuff.
Not half, I'd say like 90%, which is par for the course for any country. The truth is, a vast majority of people everywhere are just dumb as forget, you're holding the US to a standard that no other country in the world could possibly meet. We've all become "self-entitled" thanks to a rampant fear of government control and people are trying to fight back against what's good for them. We're in the stuffter because people would rather mooch off of social programs instead of working the stuff factory jobs that our forefathers worked. If you revolutionized the welfare system and cut off everybody except the old and disabled, and the people cut off from welfare magically developed a decent work ethic, we would have Americans working the factories again and outsourcing would be a thing of the past.
3. We don't care about our money
I find this entire paragraph offensive because it's bullstuff. The CIA had good reasons to believe that Saddam had WMDs, and there was overwhelming evidence connecting Saddam to the Al Qaeda organization. Better safe than sorry, it's better that we waste a little money bringing stability to an area than risk radical extremists getting their hands on nuclear weapons.
4. The government will do anything to increase patriotism.
The United States did not anticipate Pearl Harbor, that video offers proof that's about as valid and believable as "Loose Change".
5. The media.
An intelligent viewer could watch extremely liberal stations like CNN, or conservative stations like Fox and not be brainwashed. You can watch the news and take facts from it, if something sounds fishy to you, you could always verify it over the internet. The media in every country is disgustingly biased, European media is extremely pro-socialist, it's a good thing to have a conservative voice in the US even if it's flawed and occasionally inaccurate like every other news network out there.
