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CMV: Average US citizens have become complacent and powerless.

Have you been alive long enough to remember a time when US citizens could actually come together and bring about social and political change? (Civil rights movement, protesting wars, etc.)  It seems that long gone is a time where standing up for what you believed in actually got results. These days there are many protests, walk-outs, occupy movements, and sit in-s for all types of issues, but very little ever changes. People are quick to forget about it as soon as the next distraction occurs. I don't know if it's the imbalance of power shifted in favor of the wealthy or the deterioration of the middle class that has caused an epidemic of complacency. On social media, there is a non-stop conversation about racism, gun violence, mental health, politics, taxes,  corporations, financial criseses, social injustices, climate change/pollution etc., so I know that many people are frustrated. It's just sad that the people don't seem to be able to do anything about it. Like a child with no say in what happens to them, when we try to make our voices heard, we do not succeed. When we as a people are kept powerless for long enough, complacency flourishes.
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>Have you been alive long enough to remember a time when US citizens could actually come together and bring about social and political change?

Yes. Gay people can now marry each other in all 50 states.