It’s clear to this unbiased observer that Hell froze over as the hand-basket arrived.
It’s clear the October Surprise was to saddle the in-his-heart progressive, Obama, with a fucking millennial nightmare to thwart any meaningful change which might have occurred under a regime with a human heart.
It’s the Peace Dividend all over again. There was no respite after the Cold War. The military-industrial-complex wanted more and more. Are Bush and Cheney anything more than sock-puppets for the military-industrial-complex? It’s a war-lord world and we’ve got the guns to sell.
Why do these so-called “leaders” hate people so much? There are six and a half billion people on the planet. A third is starving. A third is slaves under oppressive regimes. A bunch more are teetering on the razor’s edge of consumer collapse. And a very, very few totter around like drunk Marie Antoinette’s wondering what all the fuss is about. Why is the left so angry and why do the right strap bombs on and blow up beauty parlors?
I feel sorry for Obama. I really do. (Assuming he isn’t a tool of the Illuminati, of course.) Here’s a relatively young man forged in a true hero mold, with ideals filling his head about how much better the human condition could be and WHAM!!!
THE WORLD IS ON FIRE.
And while Bush fiddles with his legacy and Obama counts his political capital, civilization is in freefall. The capital markets, which evidently are not built upon capital but hyperbole and chutzpah, are revealed as nothing more than a shell-game where people are fleeced on the street and wake up to find their wallet missing the next morning.
Isn’t the only process due Madoff a bullet to the brain? In Saudi Arabia they cut off your hand for stealing an apple from a cart. In China they execute you for stealing paper clips from the office. But in America, swindlers and war criminals are ex-presidents and celebrities and anyway, you voted for Bush twice and the collapse of western civilization is due to a few bad apples.
WTF?
The People of the United States of America (as well as hundreds of millions in other countries) have just witnessed the greatest financial swindle since FUCKING NEVER!
And I’m not talking about Madoff, but Paulson, Bernanke, Greenspan, Friedman (may he burn in hell) Rubin, Summers etc. et al.
What’s 50 Billion when you can get 10 Trillion? Money which did not even exist before but we still owe as if it did exist.
Did you have any say over the bailout? Most of us opposed it and the House voted against it initially. That 750 Billion turned out to be a drop in the bucket and all of it has been flushed down the toilet like the Two Trillion the Pentagon lost, which Rumsfeld admitted a couple days before 911.
Of course, the money isn’t lost; it’s stolen.
Remember the old saw which war-criminal President Bush mangled beyond recognition? Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
Well, Fool, is mild compared to how many times we Americans have been suckered by the ruling elites and their political principle: Kill the poor, suck the worker, sack the treasury and invest in private security firms.
Right now the system is being propped up by nothing more than belief the system exists. But as more and more see this great Capitalist system as nothing but a Bankster with no Clothes, then the closer we all come to freefall.
The safety nets were cut away long ago. The agencies and institutions meant to help citizens in distress from natural and/or man-made disasters are all bankrupt or begging for help themselves.
Did I hear something about the Porn Industry asking for a government bailout?
If Vice is suffering then you know it’s bad out there. I’ve just invested in the bathtub gin industry. There’s always money to be made through misfortune.
Meanwhile, as the global economy is revealed as nothing more than a parlor trick, the world is made more and more dangerous as more and more people are put in war-zones, refugee camps, or left on the streets to die because who cares. Does the man clinging to the life-raft help save the man swimming to it when the life-raft is already dangerously over-crowded?
Wars are fomented in the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa and South America. Civil unrest is expected and prepared for in the United States, the UK and Europe. The weapons industry works overtime to fill the gaps in urban warfare, crowd control and mass detention.
The world is not the same it was in 1929. Mass communication and successful propagandizing of ideals have made a populace who can take a lot, but when the tipping point is reached, we are a people who can mobilize in numbers which threaten retail sales and Saturday matinees, not to mention the rule of, for and by The Few – and I don’t mean The Marines.
Americans have been taught Entitlement. America is Exceptional in the realm of nations. Some even believe God watches over and protects America.
So when America goes south, it doesn’t have to go very far before people start saying WTF is going on here?
Why do you think Congress was threatened with a country under Martial Law if the Great Swindle wasn’t passed? The banks were bailed out because they lost all your retirement savings in Ponzi scheme investments and a hundred million Americans who just learned they have no money saved up for the Golden Years aren’t going to take it like sheep. It’s one thing to be sheared, it’s quite another to have your heart ripped out and eaten raw in some kind of Bohemian Grove ritual where the Elites laugh at the “common man” for being such fucking idiots to let morons and psychopaths like the elite lead the people around by the nose like a great lumbering Oxen.
There is another shoe to drop. After eight years of psychopathic America blowing shit up because someone, still unknown, knocked our buildings down, we end with a financial collapse of the Universe’s biggest ponzi scheme, the “free market”, and now face more wars, more human misery, more intramural strife, more acts of desperation, more retaliation, more punishment, more and more people living hand to mouth, huddled together for warmth and protection in “poverty zones” out of sight of decent people, but where it’s understood the cops won’t shake you down or check your identification for debtor’s warrants.
The view from here is only one small step ahead of reality. We’re only a perceived threat away from martial law and a few more institutional meltdowns away from stone-age bartering and weekly craft fairs.
I’ve never been in freefall more than six-feet or so before hitting bottom. It’s not enough distance to really know the sensation of freefall. Skydivers know. But skydivers don’t feel the terror of a hard landing because they know the whole reason they’re in freefall in the first place is the parachute. Hallelujah!
Maybe that’s why CEOs never seem to give a fuck. Parachutes.
But what about those of us who recognize the fall but can’t see the bottom and have no breaking mechanism from the fall to soften our landing? What happens when you hard-land and find yourself in a world without a penny or possession but the clothes on your back and the content of your character?
This is the question on my mind lately. After hitting bottom, will people repeat the mistakes and behaviors of the past and bust ourselves back to a feudal system of warlords and loathing or can people, who for ten thousand years have known nothing but violence and fear, and now see their once vaunted civilization amount to nothing more than a giant King of the Hill match, transcend what is expected of us and instead forge a new way with the human heart as its foundation instead of merely ‘cleverness’?
We shall see. We enter a nightmare. Obama is our champion. Will he hit the ground running? Or will he just hit bottom?
Pray for the best, but plan for the worst.