"Really big issues that affect all of us — health-care accessibility, for instance — are seemingly insolvable. Why stress ourselves out worrying about Social Security when we can boycott Target for running ads that omit the word “Christmas”?
"Grievances allow us to flex our muscle. We’ve managed, in this nation, to conceal severe poverty in urban and rural pockets. We don’t mind sitting atop a mountain of debt. With a little effort, most of us can even forget we’re bogged down in a war half a world away.
"Isn’t it great to know we can still work up some all-American outrage to ban gay marriage or defend Christmas?"
Barbara Shelly of the KC Star
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