Naomi Wolf: The End of America

[gandalf]

Politically, we’re off-track.

But I’m of the mindset that our country, our democracy and culture, will correct itself in time. I see signs of a turnaround. I’m concerned about our education system, about the character of our media and its infotainment culture and the terrible impact it’s having on ethics, the quality of our citizenry and the competence of our labor force.

Sheeple is being kind.

Also, I’m concerned about the quality of our politics, the breakdown in civility in public life. I don’t care for the partisanship, all the bumper sticker loyalists, and in particular, Republicans who put the welfare of their party before the interests of our country. They’ve lost their way, abandoned principles for power. It’s dishonorable.

The country will be alright though. Give it time.

Honestly, the economy is a bigger deal. 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.

[Arraya]

“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.

[Arraya]

“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.

[Arraya]

“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.

[Arraya]

“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.

[Arraya]

“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.

[drunkle]

“I’m of the mindset that our country, our democracy and culture, will correct itself in time.”

i think most people feel this way. some people are more angry about things as they are than others, but in general, most people are confident in america.

but, i think that attitude is a double edged nuke. assuming that “things will take care of themselves” or that someone (someone else) will “fix it” are not conducive to things getting fixed…

[drunkle]

“I’m of the mindset that our country, our democracy and culture, will correct itself in time.”

i think most people feel this way. some people are more angry about things as they are than others, but in general, most people are confident in america.

but, i think that attitude is a double edged nuke. assuming that “things will take care of themselves” or that someone (someone else) will “fix it” are not conducive to things getting fixed…

[drunkle]

“I’m of the mindset that our country, our democracy and culture, will correct itself in time.”

i think most people feel this way. some people are more angry about things as they are than others, but in general, most people are confident in america.

but, i think that attitude is a double edged nuke. assuming that “things will take care of themselves” or that someone (someone else) will “fix it” are not conducive to things getting fixed…

[drunkle]

“I’m of the mindset that our country, our democracy and culture, will correct itself in time.”

i think most people feel this way. some people are more angry about things as they are than others, but in general, most people are confident in america.

but, i think that attitude is a double edged nuke. assuming that “things will take care of themselves” or that someone (someone else) will “fix it” are not conducive to things getting fixed…

[drunkle]

“I’m of the mindset that our country, our democracy and culture, will correct itself in time.”

i think most people feel this way. some people are more angry about things as they are than others, but in general, most people are confident in america.

but, i think that attitude is a double edged nuke. assuming that “things will take care of themselves” or that someone (someone else) will “fix it” are not conducive to things getting fixed…

[Ricechex]

Thanks Paramount. I will order it. Unfortunately, the website also has that shouting propaganda look to it. Perhaps those of us fighting the New World Order need to get some better website designers and more Hollywood types to streamline the movies. Of course, that would mean more control by the Elite, so I guess we gotta work with what we have.

On the RFID card, we won’t see that in May. But, I work civil service, and they have it in place there. We have a CAC card, fingerprinted, scan bar…yup, we are product code (human capital is it?).

The internet is so restricted that you cannot even see JPGs on many websites. Even the Union Tribune website has the DOD warning message–bold print–to scare us. For awhile I got around the yahoo mail, by linking through foreign countries, but they locked that down too. It seems like every day, more and more is blocked, and NO I am not looking at porn, New World Order, or anything controversial. They even pulled the CD burning program, and sometimes I need those for power point presentations. Now, I gotta go to a supervisor.

I have 13 complex passwords (numbers, capital letters, lower case letters, symbols) for different websites I use throughout the year. These passwords must be changed every 60 days. And, I am a fairly mid/low level position without clearances, top secret stuff, blah blah.

[Ricechex]

Thanks Paramount. I will order it. Unfortunately, the website also has that shouting propaganda look to it. Perhaps those of us fighting the New World Order need to get some better website designers and more Hollywood types to streamline the movies. Of course, that would mean more control by the Elite, so I guess we gotta work with what we have.

On the RFID card, we won’t see that in May. But, I work civil service, and they have it in place there. We have a CAC card, fingerprinted, scan bar…yup, we are product code (human capital is it?).

The internet is so restricted that you cannot even see JPGs on many websites. Even the Union Tribune website has the DOD warning message–bold print–to scare us. For awhile I got around the yahoo mail, by linking through foreign countries, but they locked that down too. It seems like every day, more and more is blocked, and NO I am not looking at porn, New World Order, or anything controversial. They even pulled the CD burning program, and sometimes I need those for power point presentations. Now, I gotta go to a supervisor.

I have 13 complex passwords (numbers, capital letters, lower case letters, symbols) for different websites I use throughout the year. These passwords must be changed every 60 days. And, I am a fairly mid/low level position without clearances, top secret stuff, blah blah.

[Ricechex]

Thanks Paramount. I will order it. Unfortunately, the website also has that shouting propaganda look to it. Perhaps those of us fighting the New World Order need to get some better website designers and more Hollywood types to streamline the movies. Of course, that would mean more control by the Elite, so I guess we gotta work with what we have.

On the RFID card, we won’t see that in May. But, I work civil service, and they have it in place there. We have a CAC card, fingerprinted, scan bar…yup, we are product code (human capital is it?).

The internet is so restricted that you cannot even see JPGs on many websites. Even the Union Tribune website has the DOD warning message–bold print–to scare us. For awhile I got around the yahoo mail, by linking through foreign countries, but they locked that down too. It seems like every day, more and more is blocked, and NO I am not looking at porn, New World Order, or anything controversial. They even pulled the CD burning program, and sometimes I need those for power point presentations. Now, I gotta go to a supervisor.

I have 13 complex passwords (numbers, capital letters, lower case letters, symbols) for different websites I use throughout the year. These passwords must be changed every 60 days. And, I am a fairly mid/low level position without clearances, top secret stuff, blah blah.

[Ricechex]

Thanks Paramount. I will order it. Unfortunately, the website also has that shouting propaganda look to it. Perhaps those of us fighting the New World Order need to get some better website designers and more Hollywood types to streamline the movies. Of course, that would mean more control by the Elite, so I guess we gotta work with what we have.

On the RFID card, we won’t see that in May. But, I work civil service, and they have it in place there. We have a CAC card, fingerprinted, scan bar…yup, we are product code (human capital is it?).

The internet is so restricted that you cannot even see JPGs on many websites. Even the Union Tribune website has the DOD warning message–bold print–to scare us. For awhile I got around the yahoo mail, by linking through foreign countries, but they locked that down too. It seems like every day, more and more is blocked, and NO I am not looking at porn, New World Order, or anything controversial. They even pulled the CD burning program, and sometimes I need those for power point presentations. Now, I gotta go to a supervisor.

I have 13 complex passwords (numbers, capital letters, lower case letters, symbols) for different websites I use throughout the year. These passwords must be changed every 60 days. And, I am a fairly mid/low level position without clearances, top secret stuff, blah blah.

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