The reactions of others are irrelevant to my desire to express my own opinion.<p>As a political minority, I am well aware that there are literally tens of millions of people who will dismiss my opinions without even pausing to think about them.  That doesn&#x27;t mean that I should stop having them, or stop expressing them in whatever way that pleases me.<p>I&#x27;m not exactly sure what you hope to accomplish by your responses.  It almost sounds like you agree with the sentiment, but not the expression.  If so, it is not a tad hypocritical to complain about how I am arranging my words rather than try to say it better yourself?<p>There&#x27;s <i>always</i> going to be <i>something</i> to complain about.  If not how the military-industrial complex is preventing the realization of peacetime prosperity, it might be how we have all this peacetime prosperity, but can&#x27;t keep the mosquitoes from biting everyone at the picnic.  If we run out of truly awful things to complain about, we can <i>always</i> complain about the merely annoying things.  So I find your suggestion that complainers would actually prefer that the things they complain about not be fixed to be misguided.