Apathy as an American value

The world is sometimes ugly. I am sometimes amazed that we survive. Hard not to be depressed at times when you see bad things in the world. I wonder that everything hasn't fallen apart. For example, a judge in California recently decided that homosexual marriage is legal in that state. That is pretty bad - the people just clarified the law and gave common consent to the idea that marriage is man and woman. Everyone knows what marriage is and most people just want to play a game with the kids after work. I don't have energy to fight judges about the definition of marriage.

If one person can cause so much havoc then how do you resist it? I read Liberal Fascism and he gives a bunch of examples of how things got bad and how the fascist ideas keep coming back and reaching for power. They are always the same. But they don't quit. Mussolini, Wilson, Hitler, FDR, peaceniks. All on the same script.

Dennis Prager is sometimes pessimistic about the goodness of humanity. I am more optimistic than he is, believe it or not. He has a good example though. It takes 10,000 good drivers to keep traffic moving well and only one to mess the whole thing up.

So if one bad person can hurt so many then how do we survive? How can things be fixed or improved if no one cares? We had an election recently and the voter participation was somewhere around 5%. Almost no one voted. Trying to get people involved or to man volunteer booths is nearly impossible.

While reading Liberal Fascism I tried to think of a reason that they have failed in so many attempts to seize power. On one hand they have had a lot of success. I am not fond of most government programs. In my view both major parties have taken a steady march to the left and we have come a long way from the constitutional republic we started with. But on the other hand I think the struggle to get people involved shows the positive side of American political apathy. We just don't care enough to get excited. People prefer to watch football over attending political rallies. I think there is too much goodness and kindness to support fascist tendencies for long. Ruling your neighbors world takes to much effort. The elitist minority can't keep up the excitement long enough to fire the average Joe into socialist revolution. It seems to work in our favor somehow.