Why are Americans so scared of change?
53- Several Ninjas
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they're quick to chant a slogan or get caught up in branding hype. They say they want change. But when change comes a calling, they get all rigid and frigid.
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I'm not I have it trapped in a big jar in the kitchen.
89- Davinagirl3
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I think it is because both parties have screwed up so bad, in the recent past, everyone is scared to make a move. We have both parties telling us that we shouldn't do what the other party says, and yet no one knows what we SHOULD do.
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Several Ninjas wrote:
they're quick to chant a slogan or get caught up in branding hype. They say they want change. But when change comes a calling, they get all rigid and frigid.
I didn't want change, especially this kind of idiocy. You want it? Come get Obama and take him and 3/4 of Congress with you and have a grand ol time!
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Change is great!!! when it is sane, upstanding and fruitful.
In the cosmic scheme of things...everyone is suppose to be learning something really big and important...so I hope everyone is waking up to what that is....
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Because we don't want to see the last of the American "dollar" morph into more paychecks for dead-beat sperm donors, habitual criminals or mothers who create babies for paychecks.
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Several Ninjas wrote:
they're quick to chant a slogan or get caught up in branding hype. They say they want change. But when change comes a calling, they get all rigid and frigid.
I think you are stereotyping us! And that is very, very upsetting.
What's your agenda?
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1. Change brings fear of the unknown.
2. A change may or may not take you out of your comfort zone.
3. CHANGE is a CONSTANT thing in this world.
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Change for the sake of change is not a good thing. If you want real change and want people to get behind it and push, you have to deal with them in an honest manner. Does that sound like a politician to you? Someone who is honest?
People fear this change because few people are being straight with them as to what the change really means. Since they don't know what's really going on, they fear change and work to keep it from happening. The real question should be why can't our leaders tell it to us straight and answer the fears of the people they're leading? Unless they're doing something dishonest.
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America is actually waiting for the change 2010 will bring.
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OK, my actual response to this is that I do indeed think that saying we are scared of change is a stereotype...and one that the OP obviously want to provoke responses with regarding our politics.
The fact of the matter is we Americans love change and we thrive on change. We are a country of adventurous immigrants, we identify with "rugged individualism;" what it took to settle a wild (and still wild in some areas...come West, lol) land, we still dominate the world's imagination and dreams as the country to "give us your poor, your huddled masses," and then turn out innovation, creativity and prosperity.
We also love the 'idea' of freedom, lol. Very much. Sometimes so much, I think, that we lose ourselves in it. Same could be said about 'success;' about wealth.
I just think in some ways, it is time for America to grow up. I could actually go on...one could write a book on this topic. It's given me an idea for a theme for something, writing this, so, 
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Lita Sorensen wrote:
OK, my actual response to this is that I do indeed think that saying we are scared of change is a stereotype...and one that the OP obviously want to provoke responses with regarding our politics.
The fact of the matter is we Americans love change and we thrive on change. We are a country of adventurous immigrants, we identify with "rugged individualism;" what it took to settle a wild (and still wild in some areas...come West, lol) land, we still dominate the world's imagination and dreams as the country to "give us your poor, your huddled masses," and then turn out innovation, creativity and prosperity.
We also love the 'idea' of freedom, lol. Very much. Sometimes so much, I think, that we lose ourselves in it. Same could be said about 'success;' about wealth.
I just think in some ways, it is time for America to grow up. I could actually go on...one could write a book on this topic. It's given me an idea for a theme for something, writing this, so, . AGREE!...NOT SKEERD at all! Just dont treat me like an idiot and try to run past me. Explain the change you'd like in clear wording, ask me if I'd agree. I just might!
Jon in Tenn.
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Davinagirl3 wrote:
I think it is because both parties have screwed up so bad, in the recent past, everyone is scared to make a move. We have both parties telling us that we shouldn't do what the other party says, and yet no one knows what we SHOULD do.
I think we are just where they want us, divided and stupid!
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dutchman1951 wrote:
Lita Sorensen wrote:
OK, my actual response to this is that I do indeed think that saying we are scared of change is a stereotype...and one that the OP obviously want to provoke responses with regarding our politics.
The fact of the matter is we Americans love change and we thrive on change. We are a country of adventurous immigrants, we identify with "rugged individualism;" what it took to settle a wild (and still wild in some areas...come West, lol) land, we still dominate the world's imagination and dreams as the country to "give us your poor, your huddled masses," and then turn out innovation, creativity and prosperity.
We also love the 'idea' of freedom, lol. Very much. Sometimes so much, I think, that we lose ourselves in it. Same could be said about 'success;' about wealth.
I just think in some ways, it is time for America to grow up. I could actually go on...one could write a book on this topic. It's given me an idea for a theme for something, writing this, so, . AGREE!...NOT SKEERD at all! Just dont treat me like an idiot and try to run past me. Explain the change you'd like in clear wording, ask me if I'd agree. I just might!
Jon in Tenn.I think we have been made powerless to change.
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ledefensetech wrote:
Change for the sake of change is not a good thing. If you want real change and want people to get behind it and push, you have to deal with them in an honest manner. Does that sound like a politician to you? Someone who is honest?
People fear this change because few people are being straight with them as to what the change really means. Since they don't know what's really going on, they fear change and work to keep it from happening. The real question should be why can't our leaders tell it to us straight and answer the fears of the people they're leading? Unless they're doing something dishonest.You are brillian sir! "Change for the sake of change is not a good thing." I've written about the same in my book.
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jiberish wrote:
America is actually waiting for the change 2010 will bring.
Yes we are. Bush's hands were tied for the last two years of his presidency. Prior to that the unemployment was at an all time low and the stock market roared like a teen lion stepping up to the plate for his turn to swing the bat.
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I think a lot of people do see the changes that are being made and it frightens them. I know it scares the hell outta me.
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Change is stress. No one likes stress.
Madame X wrote:
I think a lot of people do see the changes that are being made and it frightens them. I know it scares the hell outta me.
Yeah, me too. One of the reasons we're scared is because we had it very good here for a very long time and now the wheel is turning, and naturally we don't like that.
It's hard for us to see an improvement in the changes that have been happening here lately.
It isn't "change" in general, it's what's happening now that makes us feel a little shaky.
We'll be ok. Things will fall out the way they happen, and we'll hang in. We'll be ok as individuals, we'll be ok as a country, and things will self-adjust over time. We'll cope, we'll manage. I believe in us. It just isn't too much fun to contemplate right at the moment.- 91
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Tackle This wrote:
Yes we are. Bush's hands were tied for the last two years of his presidency. Prior to that the unemployment was at an all time low and the stock market roared like a teen lion stepping up to the plate for his turn to swing the bat.
Don't kid yourself. Most of the problems we're dealing with today have their genesis in 2001-2002. Of course many of the problems we had then had their genesis in 1992-1993. It's likely that five or six years down the road we'll be feeling the effects of the policies of our current President. Unfortunately, the effects of said policies will be much much worse than what we're dealing with right now. The best a President can do is put off the day of reckoning a little longer into the future. At least until they can't anymore. One wonders how long they can keep cheating the future.
