“I am concerned that a Dem in the White House will give Americans a fresh set of new faces, and they will think all troubles are behind them, not realizing that the damage caused is already a done deal.”
That’s true, which is why the hoopla over Obama is particularly annoying. That man won’t — and can’t — change a thing. We are on course to hit a slew of icebergs, and no President can change that outcome at this point. Obama can’t “undo” the housing bubble, or the credit crisis, or the dollar’s death spiral. As you say, the damage has already been done.
But more importantly, I’m not sure either party is particularly invested in changing our course. I’ve got a scarier proposition for you: the Dems and the GOP are merely two factions of the same group with the same ultimate goal: reduction of the middle class to a cheap labor force that will allow us to compete globally andto “survive”. The two parties just have slightly different ways of going about it: the GOP is content to haul us out to the shed and clobber us over the head with a blunt instrument before shipping us off to slaughter, whereas the Dems would invite us into the house to and offer us a drink laced with slow-acting poison…in the end, we’ll die either way. *Sigh* Because American politics today are all about the illusion of choice = hope = the ability to manipulate/lead. Once the populace realizes that hope is a pipe dream, they will grow restless and seek change outside of the political process. This is the worst nightmare for both the Dems and the GOP.
Don’t you find it odd that our so-called Democrat-controlled Congress — in particular, our professed “Fighters of Freedom” (this would include Obama, Clinton, Pelosi and the other usual suspects) — have not made any efforts to eliminate or at least curtail the Patriot Act? Or that they have rubber-stamped all funding for the war? They parties grandstand and make a big deal as they “bicker” over the issues, but the truth is that the rank and file always end up with the short end of the stick on the major issues and score a few hollow victories on the minor ones.
I feel like I’m trapped in the Matrix with a hoardes of drones who refuse to unplug themselves. Wake up, everyone. The only way out of this is revolution. Everything else is B.S.
