“But I’m of the mindset that our country, our democracy and culture, will correct itself in time.”
I agree, unfortunately it will take a lot of pain before any real change is made.
“Honestly, I’m more concerned about the economy. The impacts of a bad business cycle, market failure and true scarcity, would overshadow the politics of today by a large measure. This is the greatest risk we face right now.”
This is where the pain is going to come from. The scary part is all the circuitry is in place to handle an unruley, poverty stricken and hungry population via all the rights erroding laws, excutive orders and acts that have been recently passed. Any type of grassroots movement could be squashed and detained if so deamed necessary by the powers that be.
While at the same time the ministry of propaganda aka “main stream media” distracts us from all the pain around us. As things get worse the spin machines go into hyper-drive. Using partisan politics to pit us against each other and worthless infotainment to distract us.
I really hope I am wrong but it looks like the American standard of living is going to pop like the housing bubble via a faulty economic model, corruption on a mass scale and some nasty geological realities on our doorstep as we simultaneously slip into an authoritarian police state to deal with the chaos.
Sorry for all of you that support patrio-facist groupthink but that is what I see.
