10 Doomsday trends America can’t survive (Paul B. Farrell, Marketwatch)

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http://www.marketwatch.com/Story/story/print?guid=F4B90BDE-69C6-11E0-8CAB-00212804637C

Excerpt (the article's conclusion) -

Has America passed the point of no return?

Can’t we deflect the trajectory? Yes, but America would need a fundamental shift in how our leaders think, says Jared Diamond in “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.” We need leaders with “the courage to practice long-term thinking and make bold, courageous, anticipatory decisions at a time when problems have become perceptible but before they reach crisis proportions.”

Never happen, says Jeremy Grantham, a guy managing $100 billion: “It’s more or less guaranteed that every time we get an outlying, obscure event that has never happened before in history,” like 2008, America’s leaders on Wall Street, Washington and Corporate CEOs “are always going to miss it.” Yes, miss the next big one too.

Bottom line: Underneath America’s endless political drama lie deep wounds that are widening the gap between the Super Rich and the other 99% of America, wider today than before the 1929 Crash. And now as then, we know the Super Rich don’t really care about the needs of the rest of America — witness their agenda in states like Wisconsin and Michigan, and the GOP’s new “Path to Prosperity” budget, a rush to restore failed Reaganomics policies.

The greed of the Super Rich is insatiable. For them, more is never enough. Without a fundamental shift in how our leaders think, soon the 2020 timetable projected in the work of the Pentagon, Ferguson and others will mark the final countdown, the inevitable trajectory of “Doomsday Capitalism” which we detailed in “America’s 10 Worst Years: 2011-2020.”

[Warpy]

1. The country can't survive these if they are allowed to continue

and the constant barrage of propaganda from all news outlets is trying to assure that they will continue.

However, working America is getting restless. The Tea Party, while Astroturfed to the max by preachers and Koch brothers' front groups, is a symptom of a tremendous amount of anger just under the surface out in workday land.

The wild card, as always, is labor. If every John Galt in the country disappeared altogether, no one would notice. If a sizable percentage of labor refused to work for just one day, it would shake this country to its foundations and topple the whole media house of cards overnight.

The only reason this country got the New Deal was that the plutocracy was seriously worried about the prospect of a socialist revolution by workers who were tired of seeing their kids go hungry.

History can repeat.

[AndyTiedye]

2. The Teabaggers Demonstrate the Power of Propaganda

to redirect ALL of that anger anywhere they want to.

[bvar22]

7. Its NOT the TeaBaggers who redirected the anger.

Their anger was redirected by TPTB and their propaganda arm, the MSM.

I give TeaBaggers a point for recognizing that Something is BAD wrong,
and the willingness to scream about it.
I take that point away for allowing this legitimate anger to be redirected to the wrong target.

When The Working Class & The Poor realize WE have more in common with each other
than we have in common with the RICH Status Quo Political leadership of BOTH Political parties,
we can demand "change".




Who will STAND and FIGHT for THIS American Majority?
"By their WORKS you will know them,"
and by their WORKS they will be judged.

[AndyTiedye]

9. The Teabaggers are Mad as Hell at Whatever the Tee Vee Tells Them to Be Mad At

They are tgotally brainwashed.

[RKP5637]

3. I think it will repeat. Eventually the teabaggers are going to wakeup and

realize they've been used and F'ed over to enable the agendas they think they are fighting. The momentum will build and eventually all hell is going to break loose. It doesn't have to be that way, but greed loves greed and I too think there is a huge level of unrest and anger in this country. So far, it has not been effectively focused on the "really" guilty parties.

[AndyTiedye]

10. The Teabaggers Will Turn Their Guns On Us

They are motivated by hate. Any anger they have about their own situation can trivially be redirected against those they hate.

They will NEVER join "the revolution".

[RKP5637]

12. Sadly, based upon how witless they've been to date, that well might happen. n/t

[Ed Suspicious]

4. I'm ready for socialist revolution.

[Angry Dragon]

5. The question needs to be asked

Have the powerful ever given up their power without being forced to??

[RKP5637]

6. Not that I know of. We should call the 21st century "The Age of Stupidity" at least

for America. A few more countries easily fall into that same category too. ... but we should know better.

[alterfurz]

8. answered by Frederick Douglass in 1857

"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters….
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

[swilton]

11. Chalmers Johnson

predicted the end of empire - Nemesis, Sorrows of the Empire, Blowback.... = too many Rubicons have been crossed..One of the biggest of course was the 2000 election - not that Bush was selected but that our political leadership went along with it. And this continues.