It's not easy these uphill battles. I'm certainly not the only one around trying to keep a positive outlook in the face of overwhelming odds but there are times (given how atomized we are) where you begin to wonder. Does anyone else notice how fucked we are? I'm not just talking about the mindless droning one finds in the mainstream media since mass distraction is its primary function. No, I'm referring to those whom I encounter during the course of a day, a week, over the last 9 months. Few seem to have a fucking clue that the party of credit-fueled mass consumerism is over. I cannot bear to count the number of conversations I've had with people in which they conclude that "recovery is around the corner" or "things will turn around". Really? Turn around to what? Can a return to the previous status quo of "free trade" madness in which the rapid deindustrialization of the US (and thus living-wage jobs) coupled with massive trade deficits with trade rivals continue unabated be really considered a "recovery" by thinking people? Recovery is the return to consumerism as 70% of GDP while producing virtually nothing of social utility? I'm stumped.
The one great "innovation" of the last thirty years, essentially the financialization of the US economy, leading directly to the unregulated alphabet soup derivative market (MBS, CDS, SIV...) has been revealed in all of its naked glory as a world-encompassing fraud while its engineers are bailed out and STILL motherfuckers believe "recovery" is just around the corner!
None grasp that their new hero in the White House works tirelessly to ensure that the war criminals of the Bush administration who made a mockery of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the UN Charter in route to looting Iraq at the cost of over a million lives as well as tens of thousands more in decimated Afghanistan never stand before a grand jury. It's the apathy I'm having trouble dealing with these days though given the fact that Americans are perhaps the most de-politicized population in the world I shouldn't be surprised and yet there it is. The bastards seem to be winning and I don't see anywhere near enough people irritated enough to give a damn much less take collective action against the fact. About those bastards who rule us Joe Bageant had this to say...
Hoisted from Comments: The Colonialist and Anti-Semitic Origins of Modern
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Some observations about why modern Israel backs genocide, and why the US
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Coldie, people want to think the best because they do not want to admit it could get worse. They look at their 401 K's and see they made a little money last quarter, after losing money for a few years.
They could care less about war crimes . The bastards have always won, and shall continue because Americans turn a blind eye to such stuff. The one who should really be taken to task is Obama for letting folks think there will be a change.
"leftisthebest"
Join the NRA!!
I think the people were willing dupes Lefty. Now they're about to take it up the ass. The fact that Obama was a transparent fraud willing to sell his very soul for a shot at the White House was obvious to anyone willing to look. For example, how does one miss the fact that the one sector from which Obama's campaign received the most financial support, Wall Street, is the one his administration has moved heaven and earth to save from the consequences of its own malfeasance at taxpayer expense? How is a trillion dollar "defense" budget--the highest in history--for the nation that constitutes 50% of the world's spending on armaments in any way indicative of change?
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