[quote=CA renter]Not only Iceland, but the MSM in the US has largely disregarded many of the protests in Europe and around the world.
What happened in Iceland is exactly what people in the US were trying to do with the *original* Tea Party before its attention was diverted away from banking and turned to healthcare reform — thrown into the ring during the financial crisis by the complicit “left wing” of the Two Party system — and twisted into another “right wing” arm of the same, corrupt Two Party system.
It’s also what people were trying to accomplish with the *original* Occupy Wall Street movement before that was twisted into “Occupy Everywhere” and the focus was shifted away from banking/finance to helping poor people and deadbeat squatters stay in homes they never had any rights to, among many other “left wing” bullet points put out by the corrupt Two Party system like immigration reform, the anti-war movement, etc. (which might all be noble in their own right, but should never have been a part of the Occupy Wall Street movement).
The government had a very strong hand in diluting these movements and redirecting the energy to more “safe” topics that are well managed by the PTB and their MSM lapdogs.
Remember how the original OWS movement was totally unable to get any airtime initially, even though thousands of people were marching through the streets?
And precious little was said about the HUGE numbers of people who were calling, faxing, and writing letters to lawmakers, strongly opposing any bank bailouts. And TARP was just the tip of the iceberg. We are still paying for these bailouts today in many ways, especially in the artificially low interest rates and the devaluation of the dollar which further impoverish savers, workers, and the elderly; while the wealthiest asset owners continue to see their wealth increase dramatically due to the artificially high asset prices that have resulted from all of this manipulation.[/quote]
Wow, a post I actually agree with CAR on…
The problem with the situation if the USA were to become a true democracy is would I even want to live here or would it even be safe?
Having a pure democracy in concept sounds nice and ideal, but that’s only assuming the people setting it up are of fair minded thought.
There are probably more lazy/violent annoying people in the world and if the majority had their say, it will not be a world/government you even want to be in or have any part of.
I sorta succumb to the belief that it’s pretty much impossible to appease everyone and not in my lifetime, but in the future, there maybe some other revolution in the US, but I’ll be long dead and decayed by then…
Even if you were to kick out all the politicians like in Iceland, there is no proof that the new government will be any better. My wild guess is this Iceland thing will be a major flop.
And the US is probably far more diverse in ethnic makeup and political view and general household mindset…
