"Showdown Fatigue" is a good term for what is happening, but I think the reason the American People are unlikely to fight goes deeper. The United States has been reduced to being an Operant Conditioning Chamber, or "Skinner Box". There is the well known experiment of the cat in the Skinner Box, with an electrified bottom. in The initial stages of the test, when the Researcher applied current to the bottom of the cage, the cat would leap about it until the current would shut off. A certain duration was established and the cat was conditioned to leap about the enclosure in anticipation of the current being shut off. On one test, however, the current wasn't shut off. The cat leapt about the cage to the point of exhaustion, finally lying down on the bottom of the cage allowing the full charge of electrical current to flow through its body. The cat had given up fighting the inevitability of being shocked, and in further tests it would not leap about the cage when current was applied ... it would just lay on the bottom of the cage and accept its fate without fight or complaint.
I'm afraid the American People have become the cat in the "Skinner Box", due the the delivery of one crisis after another to them, like current to the bottom of their cage, since the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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