Don't they realize that the more they take the abuse, the worse it'll get? Don't they realize that by shutting up and keeping quiet, taking the degredation of their lives with a complacent smile and moving on to whatever story is in the headlines, they're doing exactly what the powers that be want them to do? I'm all in favor of doing this if there is a long term plan, but there is none for the vast majority of Americans who act like thus. Don't they realize any of this?
If nothing changes, then nothing changes.
Many people in America are honestly so selfish that they'd rather live in complacent fear for themselves than ensure a better overall future for their generations and delude themselves into thinking they're not selfish because they're keeping things just on the verge of collapse for their chldren. But if they don't change things, their children will be the ones to have it worse odds than they did.
Don't they realize they're digging themselves deeper with each day they take the abuse? That each day they don't protest will make it harder to live to protest another day?
They may be tired but if they don't protest they will be even more tired. They may think things are bad now but if they don't protest they will only get worse. They are tied to an abusive country but are taking on all the tactics that will enable that country to abuse them.
If nothing changes, then nothing changes.