What Happened to Social Revolts in America?

What happened to the days of social revolt in America? What happened to protests, riots, strikes, and petitions? Native Americans fighting for rightful land, women fighting for the vote, African Americans and nonviolent protests towards social segregation during the Civil Rights movement, the protest against Vietnam. It's all there in history. So what happened? I have a hard time believing that we have run out of things to fight for.

There are plenty of things wrong with today's American society. Look at education. It's no secret that the American education system is failing. Our kids aren't graduating, can't read or write, and those that graduate and actually pursue higher education can't afford it and end up with billions in credit card and student loan debt. Way to set them up to fail. Look at the health care reform. Look at how the minorities live off the middle class taxes to provide them with food stamps and welfare so they don't have to work. Women STILL don't have equal pay or benefits in the work place. The insane price increase in gas, the increase in local state sales taxes, the increase in housing costs. Everything seems to go up except salaries, minimum wage, and jobs. Keep raising the taxes while our American citizens don't have jobs and don't have health care.

So this begs the question, why doesn't anyone fight anymore? Why doesn't anyone stand up and say 'no!'? Is it because we've all lost faith in our fellow Americans, our American government, and our freedom? I know I have. Or is it because we are too lazy? Are we too wrapped up in our busy lives, our busy jobs, and on our busy cell phones? Or maybe since the American government stopped caring about us, we stopped caring about us? I don't know. And I don't mean the war on terrorism. We all know what that's about. Oil. I understand Americans are pissed. The system is corrupt and America keeps making the same mistakes it has made for years. History always repeats itself, because we are too dumb to learn.

All it takes is one person to make a difference. We've all heard that before, and it's true. It takes one person to stand up above all and say that something is wrong. As a result, more and more people join and voice their opinions, ideas, and concerns. Then it becomes a fad, like this who "going green" thing. Kudos to the person who finally stood up and make a change in how we treat our environment. I think it's a little too late to save our environment, but whatever. Besides, in our days of high taxes, no jobs, a poor education system, and no money, what's there to save?