“We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed?  Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers?...Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it.  We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.  How do we submit?  By not being radical enough.  Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.”  --Wendell Berry